The third year program consists entirely of required clerkship rotations in the clinical specialties of surgery (8 weeks), medicine (8 weeks), OB/Gyn (8 weeks), pediatrics (8 weeks), psychiatry (8 weeks) and primary care (8 weeks).

Diagram View of Third Year:

Orientation & First Didactic Session Week 1
Midpoint Evaluation Completed Week 4
Last Didactic Session of the
Series and Final Exam Week 8

General Information:

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  The third year required clerkships must be taken at UCDMC, a major affiliated hospital, or at sites preapproved by the Committee on Educational Policy. The third year Primary Care Clerkship, administered by the Department of Family Practice & Community Medicine and the Department of Internal Medicine, include 4 weeks of primary care with a Family Practice practioner, and 4 weeks with an internist from Internal Medicine.
• Students may elect to defer one of the required third year clerkships to the fourth year with proper authorization. A limited number of slots are available.
• The Doctoring/AMP course meets on Tuesdays a.m. and Thursday a.m. meeting with 1/2 of the class on each day. Groups are assigned annually.