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 Environment Policies | YSM is dedicated to maintaining an environment which places the highest priority on collegial relationships, mutual respect, and sensitivity among students, faculty, staff, and patients. | |
Preclerkship | Professionalism and Academic Learning Environment Policies | Faculty must disclose to students any personal or financial conflicts of interest involving the topics they are presenting when teaching. | |
Preclerkship | Learning Environment , Supervision & Student Safety | Students can be expected to spend 3 hours per day or 20 hours per week on preparatory material. | |
Preclerkship | Learning Environment , Supervision & Student Safety | Outlines the guidelines to be adhered to when utilizing the PE room recording technology. | |
Preclerkship | Learning Environment , 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 Environment , Supervision & Student Safety | Students must consult course director and small group leaders before switching small group sections. | |
Preclerkship | Learning Environment , Supervision & Student Safety | YSM does not tolerate mistreatment or harassment, takes allegations of such behavior seriously, and will investigate and respond to reports of mistreatment or harassment. Procedure describes multiple options for reporting such incidents. | |
Preclerkship | Professionalism and Academic Learning Environment 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 Environment , 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 Environment 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 | 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. | |
Pre-clerkship | Graduation Requirements | The Progress Committee will systematically review all medical students at four intervals on their progress towards completing the MD degree. | |
Pre-clerkship | Learning Environment, Supervision & Student Safety | Yale School of Medicine seeks to prevent medical student exposure to infectious and environmental hazards though education and use of appropriate procedures and engineering controls and provides prophylaxis therapy if students are exposed to infectious agents. | |
Pre-clerkship | Learning Environment, Supervision & Student Safety | Yale School of Medicine provides supervision of medical students in all clinical areas to ensure quality education as well as patient and student safety. | |
Pre-clerkship | Assessment, Remediation and Appeals | Students have a right to appeal a failed course assessment, unsatisfactory remediation, or narrative commentary. |