The internal medicine clerkship will introduce you to the foundational knowledge, skills and behaviors required to diagnose and treat common medical problems in the adult patient.

You will explore conditions requiring surgical intervention and have opportunities to observe how surgical patients are managed. In the process, you will become familiar with the policies and procedures followed in the operating room.

During your pediatrics rotation, you will learn special skills and knowledge required for the examination, diagnosis, and treatment of infants, children, and adolescents.

Through your family medicine rotation, you will learn principles of family medicine and of how they apply in community practice. Emphasis is placed on continuous and comprehensive healthcare for people of both genders and all ages within the context of their families, social groups, and communities. Particular attention is paid to the diagnosis and treatment of common medical problems and to health maintenance, ambulatory care, and continuity of care.

Here, you will learn about the changes that take place in a woman during pregnancy, labor, delivery and the postpartum period—both normal and pathologic. You'll also learn about the diagnosis and treatment of major gynecological diseases and various methods of family planning.

During your psychiatry clerkship, you will learn about the major categories of mental disorder, including diagnosis and some methods of therapy. In the process, you'll learn how to take a psychiatric history and how to evaluate a patient’s mental status.