Attendance: 100% attendance at assigned clinical site(s) is required to pass the clerkship. Personal illness or family emergency may be accepted as justification for absence; however it will be noted on your final grade report and may be reflected in your grade for the course. Any unauthorized absence will result in a grade of "I" or "Y" and require a repeat of all or part of the clerkship.
Third year is going to be hard - physically and psychologically. In general, I will be working on a medical team consisting of an attending, a resident or two, an intern, and few of us med students. We will be expected to act as doctors to our patients, doing daily physical exams, running tests, researching their illnesses, and then providing "evidence-based" treatment plans. We will be in the hosptial from 5 or 6am and may stay as late as 8pm, with 24 hour call every few days and one day off per week for the sake of sanity. Meanwhile, we will be expected to study for the clerkship shelf exam and fulfill the requirements that the med school has for us, which may have little to do with how we spend most of our days in the hospital. And we will be at the bottom, as everyone loves to remind us, of a very hierarchical totem pole. People will treat us like shit and incompetent offices in charge of our lives will make them even more difficult, completely without cause (more to come on that one). It sounds so intense, that I and my friends seem to have little else to talk about, as if we're preparing for some inevitable trauma that is heading our way.
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