What Are The Clinical Clerkship and Elective Experience at Yale?
March 22, 2023ID9715
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- 00:09sub internships for students to choose from.
- 00:11Many of them are four weeks long
- 00:13and some are two weeks long So it
- 00:16gives students a lot of flexibility.
- 00:18And your clerkship year is
- 00:19a whole year you spend in the
- 00:21hospital rotating through all
- 00:23of the different specialties,
- 00:24surgery, internal medicine,
- 00:25psychiatry, family medicine.
- 00:26You do everything, and the whole
- 00:28point is to give you a little tidbit.
- 00:31To decide what you want to do in residency.
- 00:35We have a number of elective
- 00:37and sub internships which are
- 00:39rather unique such as an interventional
- 00:42radiology elective psychiatry
- 00:44elective in which students go with
- 00:46a mentor into a community and work
- 00:48with patients in their homes.
- 00:50So we have built these electives which
- 00:53have a very wide range of purposes,
- 00:56but also access to a very wide range
- 00:59of patients and social situations.
- 01:02So the clerkship experience for
- 01:03me is one of the most gratifying,
- 01:05definitely one of the most enjoyable
- 01:07experiences of the entire time here.
- 01:09Being a Med student,
- 01:09you begin to apply a lot of the information
- 01:12you learned during the preclinical
- 01:13curriculum to the actual patients.
- 01:15And you know, that's why we
- 01:16went to medical school.
- 01:17That's why we wanted to pursue this career.