Pre-Clerkship Phase Policies, Procedures & Guidelines
These policies, procedures, and guidelines apply to the Pre-clerkship phase of the MD Program, and this list is provided for attestation purposes. You can also view all policies, procedures, and guidelines by topic.
Curricular Phase | Topic | Policy Title & Link | Short Summary |
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Preclerkship | Attendance | Procedure when a student misses a mandatory session without an acceptable reason. | |
Preclerkship | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Course Directors must release qualifier scores within 5 days after the qualifier closes and students who do not pass must contact Course Directors within 7 days for remediation. | |
Preclerkship | Professionalism and Academic Learning Enviroment Policies | Code of personal and professional conduct for the YSM community. | |
Preclerkship | Professionalism and Academic Learning Enviroment Policies | Faculty must disclose to students any personal or financial conflicts of interest involving the topics they are presenting when teaching. | |
Preclerkship | Learning Enviroment, Supervision & Student Safety | Students can be expected to spend 3 hours per day or 20 hours per week on preparatory material. | |
Preclerkship | Learning Enviroment, Supervision & Student Safety | Outlines the guidelines to be adhered to when utilizing the PE room recording technology. | |
Preclerkship | Learning Enviroment, Supervision & Student Safety | Guidelines for student use of EHR. Students may access the charts of their team's patients for purposes of patient care and educational assignments, only. Outlines restrictions. RESEARCH access must be in accordance with IRB-approved protocol. | |
Preclerkship | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Integrated courses must provide at least one self-assessment midway through the course. | |
Preclerkship | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Specifies the course & clinical narrative requirement. | |
Preclerkship | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | No faculty member who is ever involved in a student's personal health care should be in a position to evaluate them. | |
Preclerkship | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Process for addressing case of suboptimal student behavior/performance and the flow of information to medical education leadership. | |
Preclerkship | Graduation Requirements | Procedure for students to challenge their educational record. | |
Preclerkship | Learning Enviroment, Supervision & Student Safety | Students must consult course director and small group leaders before switching small group sections. | |
Preclerkship | Learning Enviroment, Supervision & Student Safety | Reports of Harassment, mistreatment, bias and/or work hours violation will be addressed by course directors & department chairs with involved faculty; dept responses will be reviewed by EPCC. Faculty and staff are mandated reporters for sexual harassment. | |
Preclerkship | Professionalism and Academic Learning Enviroment Policies | This policy outlines in detail the expectations for student professionalism at YSM. | |
Preclerkship | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Procedure when a student is struggling with clinical reasoning, communication or professionalism. | |
Preclerkship | Attendance | Sessions that meet criteria in the policy may require student attendance. | |
Preclerkship | Learning Enviroment, Supervision & Student Safety | Faculty must train all graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to teach in the pre-clerkship curriculum. | |
Preclerkship | Professionalism and Academic Learning Enviroment Policies | Faculty responsibility to report any activity that could be a potential harm to other people that occurs in the context of a person's professional, medical or
academic duties. | |
Pre-clerkship | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Course Directors must release qualifier scores within 5 days after the qualifier closes and students who do not pass must contact Course Directors within 7 days for remediation. | |
Pre-clerkship | Graduation Requirements | Students must meet certain criteria to progress through each stage of the curriculum and become eligible for graduation. | |
Pre-clerkship | Graduation Requirements | The Progress Committee annually reviews student performance and receives reports of unprofessional behavior or instances of poor academic achievement. Based on its review of a student’s record, the committee can change the status of the student to help them meet the expectations of the school. |