2. YEAR THREE INFORMATIONAL MEETNG
CLASS OF 2019
March 8, 2017
WELCOME

3. Year Three Information
Overview
Core Clerkships
Personalized Education Plan (PEP)
Clerkship Advisors
MS3 Q & A Panel

4. YOU MUST TAKE USMLE STEP 1
FROM THE STUDENT HANDBOOK:
Passage of the USMLE, Step 1 is required for graduation from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. All students are required to take the exam and record a score prior to beginning Year Three.
BEFORE JULY 3, 2017:
YOU MUST TAKE USMLE STEP 1

5. Year Three Orientation
Monday, July 3, 2017 at 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM / South Auditorium
Mandatory

7. Year Three Structure Eight Core Clerkships (4 Weeks Each) Weeks 1 - 34
Emergency Medicine
Family & Community Medicine
Internal Medicine
Neurology
Obstetrics/Gynecology
Pediatrics
Psychiatry
Surgery
Inter-Session Period (3 weeks) Weeks 35,36,37
Personalized Education Plan (PEP) (15 Weeks) Weeks 38-52

8. Academic Year 2017-2018 (Class of 2019)
Year Three Calendar
Academic Year (Class of 2019)

9. Year Three Curriculum Goals
Clinical Immersion
Coaching
Longitudinal
Reflection
Preceptor based
Direct observation
Targeted feedback
Individualized Professional Development

10. Talk about coachability and engagement

11. Core Clerkship Skill Development Goals
Clinical Skills Development
H & P skills
DDX and diagnostic justification
Diagnostic and therapeutic plans
Communication & Interpersonal Skills Development
-OCPs Documentation
-Healthcare teams Patients, families, caregivers

12. Core Clerkship Skill Development Goals
Professionalism and ethical development
Patient as person
Professional image
Personal limitations
Recognition of the importance of personal and family roles and the need to balance them with professional demands
Bias
Ethical dilemmas

13. Coaching/Coachability

14. Core Assessment On the fly feedback Skills assessment Peer evaluations
Based on directly observed skills & behaviors
Formative feedback and coaching
Skills assessment
Peer evaluations
Relative rankings
Each clerkship weights components differently and will explain evaluation during orientation
Target is 15-25% honors

15. Core Clerkship Scheduling
FCM – Christopher Gleason, MD
CORE – Cherie Forsyth, Y3/Y4 Registrar

16. Core Clerkships 3 Week Inter-Session Period
Medical Humanities Clerkship (1 week)
Focus on Law, Ethics and Communication around the Physician/Patient Relationship
Doctoring Geriatric Initiative (1/2 day)
Summative CCX (2 days)
Practice Step 2 CK exam (During CCX week)
Vacation (1 week)

17. Core Clerkships 3 Week Inter-Session Period
Dates
Group
Curricular components
FEB 26-March 2
1 and 2
Doctoring and CCX
3 and 4
Medical Humanities
5 and 6
March 5-9
Vacation
March 12-16

18. Vacation Time Independence day – July 4, 2017
Four-day weekend Thanksgiving (Nov 23-26)
Two weeks of holiday break (week 25/26)
(Dec 18, 2017 – Jan 1, 2018) Return 1/2/2018
Martin Luther King Day – January 12, 2018
1 week vacation (during Inter-Session)
Up to 3-Weeks Vacation (during PEP)

20. Knowledge Checks
Practice Step 2 CK during 3-week intersession (Required)
3 shelf exams can be taken during the PEP (Optional)
NBME self-assessment exams can be taken during cores (medicine, surgery, pediatrics, OB-gyn, psychiatry, neurology) (Optional)
Faculty assessment correlates with performance on USMLEs
Number of patients seen/cared for correlates with performance on USMLEs

21. Personalized Educational Plan (PEP)

23. Y3 Personalized Education Plan (PEP) GOALS
Further development of clinical skills and clinical reasoning, especially those identified during the core rotations as areas for improvement
Deep dive into clinical areas of personal interest
Opportunity to develop skills in other areas as well
This is further CLINICAL experience, NOT research or other

24. Y3 Selectives Selectives (Approximately 90 Options)
Longitudinal Experiences
Individually Designed Selectives (IDS)
No Off-Campus Selectives in Year 3 (Exception of FCM Options)
Elective Credit Will Not Be Awarded In Y3

25. Individually-Designed Selectives
The Individually-Designed Selective (IDS) option is available to students who are interested in a course or topic for which a regular selective does not exist
IDS will be considered only under special circumstances, and must be with SIU Faculty and Advisor Approval
For further information regarding IDS opportunities, please refer to the Y3 Policies and Procedures and talk with your Advisor, Chris Reavis or Cherie Forsyth.
Must be clinically oriented

26. Selectives in Year Three
Selectives begin on Monday
End on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday – at the discretion of the faculty
Holidays during selectives – at discretion of faculty

27. Y3 PEP Selective Scheduling
Done in February

28. Registration / Important PEP Deadlines . . .
Week of Jan 8 - Feb 5 (Week 28-32)
Meet with advisor to plan PEP schedule selections
Selective Registration will close week 32
Feb 9-11 (Week 32) :
Registration for your Top 3 selective choices will open at 3pm on Feb 9 and close at 8am on Feb 12.
Feb (Week 33):
Registration for ALL remaining selectives will open at 5pm on Feb 16 and close at 8am on Feb 19.
Preliminary PEP schedules available – week 34
Schedule changes may be made prior to and throughout the PEP via Advisor approval

29. SCHEDULING PEP/SELECTIVES
NOTE:
Your Schedule will reflect
your Course/Vacation REQUEST
(3 Weeks Available) for
all 15 weeks of the PEP.

30. PEP SCHEDULING - TIMELINE
Address Specific Problems during Open Enrollment Time:
Meet with Cherie Forsyth after schedule done to “fix it”
**Open Enrollment Period Ends on February 27, After that date, (wk 35) all revisions to the Y3 PEP Selective courses will require Add/Drop Approval**

31. More Important DEADLINES
Year Three PEP Selectives
Add/Drop Forms
2 Weeks before course begins
Individually-Designed Selectives:
3 Weeks before course begins

32. PEP SELECTIVES Logbooks in Year Three
All selectives require students to maintain a logbook of patient encounters

33. Performance Evaluation for Selectives
PEP Evaluations
Performance Evaluation for Selectives
Satisfactory; Unsatisfactory or Incomplete
NO honors
UNS stays on transcript
Incomplete becomes Unsatisfactory if not completed
Unsatisfactory on transcript can affect licensure to practice medicine!

34. Clerkship Advisor Requirements

35. Clerkship Advisor Who They Are? What their function is?
How to get the most out of your time with the Clerkship Advisor?

36. ASSISTANCE Susan Hingle, MD – Y3 Director
Debra Klamen, MD, MHPE - Senior Associate Dean for Education and Curriculum
Chris Reavis, MS – Y3/Y4 Curriculum Coordinator
Cherie Forsyth – Y3/Y4 Registrar

37. From Students’ Webpage…
Where to find links....
From Students’ Webpage…
Click on:
‘YEAR THREE’
(Class of 2019)

38. Year Three Q & A