Clinical Electives Policy

  • Last Modified: Jan 17, 2025
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  • Responsible Office(s): Council on Curriculum

Policy Statement

Clinical electives are assigned to one of nine distinct categories by the Council on Curriculum:

  1. Family and Community Medicine
  2. Internal Medicine
  3. Neurology/Psychiatry
  4. Obstetrics/Gynecology
  5. Pathology
  6. Pediatrics
  7. Radiology
  8. Surgery
  9. Other

To promote breadth of experience, clinical elective selection must conform to these guidelines:

  • Students must complete at least three clinical electives, each from one of the nine categories, as a graduation requirement. Further selection of clinical electives may take place at the discretion of the student, with appropriate advising from the Docent and Education Team Coordinator.
  • Students must also complete at least one Critical Care elective. This elective will also count toward the three required clinical electives chosen from the nine categories.
  • All students must petition the Council on Curriculum to take more than 4 clinical electives from any one of the nine categories.

Participation in clinical electives can take place in any order.

All clinical electives available for medical students are reviewed by the Council on Curriculum. The Council on Curriculum assigns each individual elective experience to a general UMKC elective category, and within each category the elective is matched to the most appropriate UMKC elective title. These agreed upon elective titles correspond to ACGME approved postgraduate training programs.

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