M3 Clerkships & Selectives

• MED MD 302: Medicine Clerkship
  The Medicine Clerkship is an 8-week clinical experience in the core clerkship year. In this clerkship, students will develop their ability to function as a caring, increasingly independent clinician while supervised on a multi-professional team. Students will learn clinical medicine while working side-by-side with teams of residents and/or faculty providing care to a cohort of inpatients. This direct patient care experience is complemented by a unique enrichment in which students also work in small groups with a clerkship director and hone essential clinical skills (including intermediate-level communications skills, physical diagnosis, and clinical reasoning). Students also attend conferences that focus on core topics. The clerkship is divided into two mini-blocks of 4 weeks each, and most students spend time at 1 or 2 of our clinical sites.
• MED MD 303: Neurology Clerkship
  The Neurology Clerkship is a 4-week clinical experience in the core clerkship year. In this clerkship, students will learn the basics of taking a neurological history and performing an examination with the goal of localizing the lesion in the nervous system as well as how to synthesize information from history and physical in order to produce a differential diagnosis and treatment plan. Students will encounter chronic disorders in the outpatient clinic and be involved in treatment of acute neurological disorders in the inpatient setting. Students will also learn the indications and contraindications for performing LPs and know the general approach for performing LPs.
• MED MD 304: Obstetrics and Gynecology Clerkship
  The Obstetrics & Gynecology Clerkship is a 6-week clinical experience in the core clerkship year. In this clerkship, students will receive instruction in the basic knowledge and skills specific to reproductive health maintenance and disorders of patients with female reproductive organs. Students will spend time on inpatient obstetrics, inpatient gynecology/surgery, and ambulatory Ob/Gyn at all sites. Students will have ambulatory experiences in both general and specialty clinicals throughout the rotation. This clerkship emphasizes the importance of quality obstetrics and gynecology in providing continuous comprehensive care for patients and prepares students for their future role as a physician.
• MED MD 305: Pediatrics Clerkship
  The Pediatrics Clerkship is a 6-week clinical experience in the core clerkship year. In this clerkship, students will develop their ability to care for patients from birth to age 22, increasing their competence to address the unique needs of young patients using developmentally appropriate, family-centered, and biopsychosocial frameworks. The clerkship will hone students' clinical and communication skills, with an emphasis on relationship building with patients and their families. Students will learn to adapt both physical exam techniques and communication to age-appropriate and knowledge-appropriate levels.
• MED MD 306: Surgery Clerkship
  The Surgery Clerkship is an 8-week clinical experience in the core clerkship year. In this clerkship, students will learn basic knowledge and skills specific to the field of general surgery, including emergent and non-emergent intra-abdominal disease, traumatic injury, and surgically treated malignancies. Students will have the opportunity to learn about a selection of illnesses treated by surgical subspecialists including diseases of the head and neck, the genitourinary system, the vascular system, thorax, and the musculoskeletal system, as well as anesthesiology.
• MED MD 307: Psychiatry Clerkship
  The Psychiatry Clerkship is a 6-week clinical experience in the core clerkship year. In this clerkship, students will learn skills in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with psychiatric disorders and associated behavioral health issues. Clinical and didactic experiences will focus on DSM-V diagnoses, psychopharmacology, basics of individual and group psychotherapies, and becoming an active member of a treatment team.
• MED MD 308: Family Medicine Clerkship
  The Family Medicine Clerkship is a 6-week clinical experience in the core clerkship year. In this clerkship, students will learn the knowledge, attitudes, and skills specific to Family Medicine and prepare for their future role as a physician in any specialty they pursue. The clerkship will demonstrate the importance of the family physician in providing continuous and comprehensive care to the patient and students will learn the importance of the doctor-patient relationship, interviewing skills, appropriate physical exam, and clinical problem-solving in caring for patients.
• MED MD 320: Emergency Medicine Selective
  The Emergency Medicine Selective is a 4-week clinical experience in the core clerkship year. Students will learn efficient emergency department (ED) care, including timely evaluation, management, and disposition of undifferentiated ED patients and its effect on patient safety and subsequent inpatient and ambulatory care. Students will take an active role in the initial evaluation and treatment of patients and gain exposure to a wide variety of illnesses, diagnostic approaches, treatments, and procedures.
• MED MD 321: Radiology Selective
  The Radiology Selective is a 4-week clinical experience in the core clerkship year. Students will learn the basics in radiological imaging and intervention, while getting hands on learning through observing radiologists, participating in multidisciplinary conferences, and using virtual PACS and simulation centers. The selective curriculum blends lectures and independent study, equipping students with basic essential radiology knowledge and skills for their future careers in various medical specialties.
• MED MD 322: Research Selective
  The M3 Research Selective allows third-year medical students to undertake four weeks of research for credit after approval of their application by the review committee. While many students will choose to work with BU faculty mentors, students may participate in research with non-BU faculty at other institutions. Students work as part of a team to build research skills, including study development, data collection, statistical analysis, and preparing publications. At the end of the Selective, each student submits a project summary and is evaluated by their research mentor. Students may use the time to continue research projects started earlier in their training.
• MED MD 350: Personal and Professional Development
  Personal and Professional Development