Year 3
Year 3 integrates the core clinical clerkships, didactic courses and a research experience. Electives in Year 3 serve the primary purpose of career exploration that range from anesthesiology to medical genetics to radiology to urology, and many more.
While the new MMS curriculum that debuted in July 2006 affected the entering first-year students most powerfully, other students also will feel the impact of Mayo’s re-visioning of medical education.
Here are just a few of the ways that the new curriculum touches students in Year 3. Through:
MMS’s explicit commitment to Leadership, Bioethics and Service to Society. These themes have always been implicit at MMS. In the new curriculum, they are made explicit to rigorously inform the advanced students’ learning experiences as they embark on Year 3 Clerkships in:
- Family Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Neurology
- Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Surgery
Support for active and cooperative learning styles in the didactic courses. Topics here include:
- principles of professional conduct
- instruction in managing patient confidentiality
- the role of humanities in medicine
- strategies for minimizing medical errors in practice
- methods for setting boundaries in patient/physician relationships
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