VCOM Institutional Policy and Procedure Manual

VCOM Policy and Procedure

Policy #S009

standardized patient, clinical procedural skills, interprofessional educational experiences, and community clinical outreach. The core and required clinical curriculum in the third and fourth years of the osteopathic medical education program is completed in a VCOM clinical education core site. Each clinical education core site provides a mix of hospital-based and ambulatory practice based experiences. The core and required clinical rotations in the third-year includes family medicine, internal medicine I and II, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, rural primary care, surgery, and a medical or surgical selective. Students in the third-year also complete a 4-week research period. The required clinical rotations in the fourth-year includes emergency medicine, a medical selective, a surgical selective, a medical or surgical selective, and intensive medical selective, and 5 electives. VCOM requires a formal affiliation agreement with each hospital or ambulatory medical institution serving as a clinical education core site for VCOM 3rd and 4 th year students, assuring clinical educational experiences and the appropriate oversight. In the ambulatory setting not affiliated with a hospital rotation, each individual clinical faculty member holds a clinical contract for teaching (individual or through a group practice). The VCOM clinical education core sites are structured with a VCOM contracted Director of Student Medical Education and a Clinical Coordinator to support the program and the students. Each clinical education core site offers the third-year core and required rotations and approved fourth year required selective rotations. In the fourth year, students seeking specific clinical skills may also spend time on campus to refine those clinical skills in a simulated setting such as participating in an ultrasound rotation, surgical anatomy and surgical procedures rotation, Osteopathic Manipulation (on campus and clinical), and Sports Medicine (on campus and clinical). Students are also allowed to complete a portion of their fourth-year clinical experiences in elective sites. 3. DUTIES OF THE CLINICAL AFFAIRS DIVISION The college provides an on-campus Division for Clinical Affairs supporting clinical education across the four years of medical education. The faculty and staff supporting this Division include: • Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs • Associate Dean for OMS 4 and Graduate Medical Education • Clinical Discipline Chairs (core disciplines include: Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Rural Primary Care, and Emergency Medicine) • Support staff for the Clinical Chairs and the Division The Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs oversees the clinical education core sites and the OMS 3 students and holds the responsibility of assuring all OMS 3 rotations are available and of appropriate quality. This includes oversight of the Directors of Student Medical • Director for OMS 3 Clinical Rotations • Director for OMS 4 Clinical Rotations

VCOM Policy on Assuring the Clinical Education Curriculum

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