Year Three General Information

• Core Curriculum: (Eight / Four Week Rotations 34 weeks) in an inter-professional clinical environment
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Family and Community Medicine
  • Internal Medicine
  • Neurology
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Pediatrics
  • Psychiatry
  • Surgery
• Intersession Period: 3 weeks
  • Medical Humanities
  • Summative Clinical Competency Exam
  • Geriatrics
• Personalized Education Plan (PEP): 15 weeks
  • Selective courses to improve clinical skill/professional development

Evaluations are administered at the completion of each clerkship on a pass/fail grading scale assessing Clinical Skills and Professionalism with an overall rating within the Reporter Interpreter Manager Educator (RIME) schematic.

A comprehensive Summative Clinical Competency Examination (SCCX) is administered during the Intersession Period existing of 14 cases assessing clinical reasoning, differential diagnoses, history and physical exam performance, planned management, patient satisfaction communication, and interpersonal skills.  Students usually take Step 2 of the U.S. Medical Licensure Exam (USMLE) following the end of the third-year curriculum.

• Calendars
• Compact Between Teachers and Learners of Medicine
• HIPAA Information
  • Memorandum from Don Chenoweth CIO, SIU HealthCare, May 31, 2012
  • SIU HIPAA policies and procedures
• Honor Code
• Industry Relations Policies
• Medical Student Use of Electronic Devices During Patient Encounters
• Year 3 Policy and Procedure
• Needle Sticks and Bloodborne Pathogens Exposure
  • BBP and TB Information Sheet
• Objectives for Graduation
• Research Policy for Medical Students
• Standards of Conduct
• Year 3 Weather Emergency Policy
• Student Work Hours in Year Three
• SIU Healthcare Intranet
  • Medical Documentation Policy
    • Appendix A: Acceptable and Unacceptable Abbreviations
    • Appendix B: Official "Do Not Use" List
  • Medical Emergency Procedures for Clinics
    • Medical Emergency Response - Carol Jo Vecchie
    • Medical Emergency Response - SIU Clinics
  • Scanning Standards
    • Scanning
    • Scanning - Attachments A and B
    • Scanning - Attachment C
  • Writing Prescriptions 
• Domestic Violence Resources: Mandated Reporter Information
  • Standard of Service for Mandated Reporters
• Partner Violence: 
  • Illinois Domestic Violence Act: Notification of Duty to Disclose
  • Sojourn Shelter and Services, Inc., 1-866-435-7438
• Child Abuse:
  • Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act
  • "Care Enough to Call" -- Illinois DCFS
  • Manual for Mandated Reporters - DCFS, 1-800-252-2873
  • Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse -- Training for Mandated Reporters
  • Illinois DCFS Flowchart – How to Report Suspected Child Abuse or Neglect
• Elder Abuse:
  • Reporting Elder Abuse, 1-866-800-1409