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Medicine (MED)

School of Medicine

MED 531 Internal Medicine Clerkship (16) Required for third-year medical students, 11-week duration. Ambulatory care and hospital-based experience. Pre: third year medical student standing.

MED 532 Internal Medicine Longitudinal Clerkship (8) Six-month long clerkship in ambulatory setting, and six-week hospital-based experience. Repeatable one time. Pre: third-year standing and concurrent registration in 532 courses.

MED 541 Advanced Medicine Clerkship (6) Required 4 weeks duration for fourth-year medical students. Advanced experiences in ambulatory and hospital-based medical care. Proficiency in this course may be established by examination. CR/NC only. Pre: fourth-year standing and completion of 531, or consent.

MED 545 (Alpha) Electives in Medicine (V) Fourth-year electives in which students study selected topics within field of medicine. (B) allergy/immunology; (C) cardiology; (D) medicine elective in Asia; (E) dermatology; (F) endocrinology; (G) gastroenterology; (H) general internal medicine: ambulatory care; (I) general internal medicine: inpatient; (K) hematology; (M) nephrology; (N) neurology; (O) nuclear medicine; (P) oncology; (Q) pulmonary diseases; (R) research in medicine; (S) rehabilitation medicine; (T) rheumatology; (W) internal medicine sub-internship. CR/NC only. Pre: 531 or 532 for (C), (E), (F), (G), (H), (K), (M), (N), (O), (Q), (R), (S), and (T); 541 for (D) and (W).

MED 546 (Alpha) Electives in Medicine (V) Fourth-year electives in which students study selected topics within field of medicine. (B) extramural electives in medicine (miscellaneous); (C) internal medicine seminar; (D) infectious disease; (E) internal medicine sub-internship; (F) research in bioethics; (G) neurology critical care; (H) medical informatics; (O) obesity medicine. Repeatable one time for (C)–(E); not repeatable for (F); repeatable two times for (C) and (H); repeatable three times for (G). CR/NC only. Pre: 531 or 532 for (B), (C), and (O); 541 for (E) and (H).

MED 599 Directed Research (V) Pre: consent.