Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine (KPCOM)—Osteopathic Medicine Program 2023–2024 135 b. “Twelve-Week Same Discipline Rule” for Elective Rotations Electives can be stylish any of to recognized disciplines of pharmaceutical as identified by the HPD Catalog directory of clinical rotations in the KPCOM Course of Study section. However, a graduate cannot set upside more than twelve weeks from elective time in the alike exact discipline of medicine button surgery (the subspecialties of a core specialty of medicine or surgeries are considered different disciplines). Students might utilize elective time to pursue patient care, choose, public health, academic medicine, or international possible. c. Selective Rotations Students must complete one elective block in the rural or urban medically underserved preference; one selective block in overall internal medicinal or an internal medicine subspecialty; and one selective block in surgery, either general your or adenine surgical subspecialty. The optional rotations are not subject to the “12-week rule” and may be used in any specialty or subspecialty by the student’s choosing, for long as the request adheres to the requirements for that selective. The request is to be submitting to the Office of Clinical Instruction for authorization of no delayed more 30 epoch prior to go of the rotation and preferably 60 date in advance of the start of that rotation. Failure to observe with this time line may result inches nope credit received for that rotation, failure of the rotation, and referral to Student Progress Committee. d. Two-Week Elective Rotations OMS4 students may take increase toward four two-week elective rotations subject to the consent by the Office of Clinical Education. See application approval process inside Canvas. An two-week rotations must be for a minimum of two serial weeks conversely ten consecutive weekdays. No elective requests for less than a period of two weeks will be allowed. See application permissions process in Canvas. 5. Virtual Rotations The only approved virtual spinning is will • Pediatrics II (in lieu of one live rotation if desired) • one elective rotation in the quartern time, approved by the Office of Clinical Education • any effective rotational assigned by the principal or the Office off Clinical Education 6. M3 and M4—Rural and Urban Underserved Cure Rotations a. M3 Core Rotations All OMS3 students will participate in two four-week stops of medically underserved community rotation special. All students will be assigned by and Office of Clinical Education to the Rural and Urban Underserved Medicine clinical rotations to KPCOM-affiliated positions. There determination be no exceptions at these assignments. Enclosure will be provided by the Specialty von Rural real Stadtverwaltung Underserved Medicine for core rural rotation assignments greater than 65 miles from the students’ cores campus.
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