senior clerkship for class 2010

Senior Clerkshipfor class 2010

October, 2008

Joyce Pickering, MD

Announcement unrelated to senior clerkship: Anne Briggs is still looking for some students who

can help train Osler fellows. You would interview standardized patients at the sim center, acting like a second year student. The goal is to train the Osler fellows to give good feedback.

Tomorrow, 2-3:30 at the Sim Center. Come at 12:15 if you would like lunch.

Please email [email protected] if you can help. She will check her emails tonight.

mailto:[email protected]

Senior Clerkship: Starts July 27, 2009 9 four week blocks

1 block ER 1 block surgical subspecialty 1 block geriatrics 1 block physicianship 4 1 (2) block(s) vacation/interviews 4 blocks electives

Will finish April 23, 2010 - April 4th is last rotation/class date, then 3 weeks study time before MCC exams

US Match Canadian Match

↓ ↓

→ Letters for US Match

→ Letters for Canadian Match

2009/2010 Sequences Jun 29-Jul 26Vacation

Jul 27 Aug 23 2009

Aug 24 Sept 20

Sept 21 Oct 18

Oct 19 Nov 15

Nov 16 Dec 13

Dec 14 Jan 10 2010

Jan 11- Feb 7

Feb 8 Mar 7

Mar 8 Apr 4 (4 weeks)

Apr 5-25 (3weeks)

1.

SS Elec 1 GERI Elec 2

Elec 3 ER Vacation/ Interviews

Phys. 4 (Med and Society, Public Health)

TMS/ Seminar option Anat. For Surg./ Elective 4

Study Time

2.

Elec 1 SS Elec 2 ER. GERI Elec 3 Vacation/ Interviews


TMS/ Seminar option Anat. For Surg./ Elec 4

Study Time

3.

ER Elec 1 SS Elec 2

Elec 3 GERI Vacation/ Interviews



Study Time

4.

Elec 1 ER Elec 2 GERI SS Elec 3 Vacation/ Interviews


TMS/ Seminar option Anat. For Surg./ Elect 4

Study Time

5. Research proposal required, open to MD/PHD. Must commit

to 8 weeks of research.

Elec 1 / Research

Research/ Elec 2

Research/Elec 3

SS ER Elec 4 Vacation/ Interviews

Phys.4 (Med and Society, Public Health,)

GERI Study Time

6.

Elec 1 GERI Elec 2 Elec 3

Elec 4 SS Vacation/ Interviews

Phys.4(Med and Society, Public Health)

ER Study Time

7.

GERI Elec 1 ER Elec 2

Elec 3 Elec 4 Vacation/ Interviews


SS Study Time

Physician Apprenticeship 4

You will be asked for your choice of rotation schedule and we will do our best to accommodate your request.

MD/MBA students must take one of the first 4 sequences, to allow them to do the Capstone course during the last month (March 8 - April 4)

Options:If you are applying to a surgical specialty, request a sequence that allows you to do surgery early.

If you are applying to ER programs, request a sequence that allows you to do ER early.

If you are applying to internal medicine, neurology, or geriatrics, request a sequence that allows you to do geriatrics early.

If you are interested in the Anatomy for surgeons course, or other Topics in Medical Sciences, request one of the first 4 sequences.


↓ ↓

→ US Match

→ Canadian Match


Jul 27 Aug 23 2009

Aug 24 Sept 20

Sept 21 Oct 18

Oct 19 Nov 15

Nov 16 Dec 13

Dec 14 Jan 10 2010

Jan 11- Feb 7

Feb 8 Mar 7


Apr 5-25 (3weeks)

1.





Study Time

2.




Study Time

3.

ER Elec 1 SS Elec 2




Study Time

4.




Study Time



Elec 1 / Research

Research/ Elec 2

Research/Elec 3



GERI Study Time

6.




ER Study Time

7.




SS Study Time


Topics in Medical Sciences (TMS) (Basic Science Options)

Evaluations from students in past very positive – “some of the best courses I taken during my 4 years”.

Examples of courses: Anatomy for Surgeons Tropical Medicine and International Health Physiologic Foundations of the Kidney People and their problems (psychiatric issues, addictions) Applied Physiology – physiology in ICU settings ETC.

TMS TMS courses count as elective time towards the

required 20 weeks. However, they do not count as a separate discipline

for the requirement of 3 different disciplines. If you do not notify us of an elective booked (for

March, 2010) by mid November, and will not have completed 20 weeks of elective by March, 2010 we will register you in TMS We will ask you for your choice of TMS course early in

December, 2009

Options:Both July and Jan vacations can be switched with electives.

Core rotations cannot be switched with vacations or electives.

If you need to attend a conference during senior clerkship (such as IFMSA), consider selecting an elective during this time.

If you are interested in a research project, request the research sequence.


↓ ↓

→ US Match

→ Canadian Match


Jul 27 Aug 23 2009

Aug 24 Sept 20

Sept 21 Oct 18

Oct 19 Nov 15

Nov 16 Dec 13

Dec 14 Jan 10 2010

Jan 11- Feb 7

Feb 8 Mar 7


Apr 5-25 (3weeks)

1.





Study Time

2.




Study Time

3.

ER Elec 1 SS Elec 2




Study Time

4.




Study Time



Elec 1 / Research

Research/ Elec 2

Research/Elec 3



GERI Study Time

6.




ER Study Time

7.




SS Study Time


For those of you who wish to do Sequence 5 (research): we will give priority to those who have a research project at McGill planned. Submit to Nicole a confirmation letter from your supervisor, which includes his/her contact information and a brief description of the project.

US Students/ApplicantsInterviews for US programs are often held in December – if you are applying to the US, consider requesting an elective during this time.

Some US programs like to see USMLE Step 2 CK results as part of the application process

If you are applying to the US, look at the requirements for some of the programs you are interested in, and consider doing Step 2 CK by summer 2009.

If you are Canadian and wish to apply to a US program, remember that only some disciplines are eligible for support for J-1 visas.


↓ ↓

→ US Match

→ Canadian Match


Jul 27 Aug 23 2009

Aug 24 Sept 20

Sept 21 Oct 18

Oct 19 Nov 15

Nov 16 Dec 13

Dec 14 Jan 10 2010

Jan 11- Feb 7

Feb 8 Mar 7


Apr 5-25 (3weeks)

1.





Study Time

2.




Study Time

3.

ER Elec 1 SS Elec 2




Study Time

4.




Study Time



Elec 1 / Research

Research/ Elec 2

Research/Elec 3



GERI Study Time

6.




ER Study Time

7.




SS Study Time


If you do not get your first choice sequence, or change your mind about your career choice after you have been assigned to a sequence, you can use your elective time to do relevant rotations.

Please use electives to broaden your medical education – no matter how narrow the specialty you choose, you will be better at it if you have a solid background in general medicine.

Those of you choosing more generalist careers, you will be better at it if you develop some depth in specialized areas.

Reminder: your electives must be done in a minimum of three different disciplines To review electives and their corresponding parent

disciplines, please see: http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/ugme/electives/electives_list_en.htm

http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/ugme/electives/electives_list_en.htm

http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/ugme/electives/electives_list_en.htm

Register on line, with your choice of sequence, by Oct. 21st, 2008 midnight.

Registration opens as of Oct. 6th. Go to www. medicine.mcgill.ca, go to medical education, undergraduate, then curriculum, then Intro to Senior Clerkship, then senior clerkship form. http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/ugme/curriculum/seniorclerk3_form_en.htm Please note: Go to Intro to Senior Clerkship NOT Senior Clerkship (Senior

Clerkship still has forms for the class of 2009)

All registrations received before Oct. 21st are treated equally.

http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/ugme/curriculum/seniorclerk3_form_en.htm

Surgical subspecialty Surgical subspecialty is not an elective. However, within certain constraints you may make

requests. We will do our best to accommodate requests, but

once assigned, you will not be able to trade. You will submit your request in January, 2009. You

will receive an email with information regarding how to submit your request.

Other points Exam at the end of senior surgical subspecialty covers

all of surgery. It is a USMLE “Shelf Exam” similar to the medicine clerkship exam.

USMLE Step 2 CK OR MCCQE 1 (LMCC) must be passed to received your degree.

Students with core clerkship electives starting Jan 12, Feb 9, April 6, May 4, June 1 or June 29 (all 2009) may request to do geriatrics in their third year instead of 4th. Contact [email protected] and obtain written permission if you wish to do this.

You must have ACLS certification in order to graduate.


Physicianship (Feb. 8 to March 5, 2010)

Mornings: Medicine and Society Afternoons: Public Health, Professionalism,

Communications Skills.

Professionalism Section on Dean’s letter Reminder: If a category under physicianship is

noted as “not consistently” on more than one clinical rotation (ICM or clerkship) a notation will be made on the Dean’s letter. Any major incident would be noted even if it occurred

only once.

Comments from your Osler Fellow, on Physicianship 3, may be included.

The following info may be useful to you as you plan your applications for residency. (available from the CaRMS site, as is much other

useful info.)

Residency programs

% of students matched to first ranked program

% of studentsmatched to first choice of discipline

Anatomical Pathology 100 100

Anesthesia 58 85

Cardiac surgery 57 71

Community medicine 57 71

Dermatology 43 54

Diagnostic radiology 50 69

Emergency medicine 43 72

Family medicine incl Rural FM & MOTP 86 97

General surgery 49 77

Hematological Pathology 100 100

Internal medicine 73 95

Laboratory medicine 85 95

Medical biochemistry 100 100

Medical genetics 100 100

Medical microbiology 71 71

Neurology (adult & pediatric) 57 88

Neurosurgery 47 94

Nuclear medicine 57 71

Obstetrics/gynecology 56 79

Ophthalmology 32 62

Orthopedic surgery 49 80

Otolaryngology 38 62

Pediatrics 45 78

Physical medicine and rehabilitation 89 100

Plastic surgery 32 49

Psychiatry 85 97

Radiation oncology 52 91

Urology 53 74

Canadian Graduates matched to their first choice disciplines, CaRMS 2007, First Iteration.

Back up planAsk yourself the question: If I don’t match to

my field of choice in 2010, what do I want to do for the year?

If it is another field of medicine, do you look reasonably attractive to that field?

Remember – after you graduate, you cannot do electives as a medical student – only as a resident.

To discuss career planning further . . . Dr. Tellier [email protected] Andrea McDaniel

[email protected]

Everyone should have at least one meeting regarding career planning over the next year. Saturday advising available once a month by

appointment – watch for emails from Andrea.


If all else fails . . .

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