{"id":446,"date":"2023-01-19T13:10:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/md\/?page_id=446"},"modified":"2024-11-08T10:17:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T18:17:48","slug":"longitudinal-integrated-clerkship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/md\/curriculum\/longitudinal-integrated-clerkship\/","title":{"rendered":"Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A central component of medical education is completing a clerkship in the final years of study to gain hands-on clinical experience. The Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine employs an innovative model of clinical training called the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC). In Year 3 of the program, all students complete a 46-week LIC to gain the clinical skills, knowledge, and empathy necessary to succeed as residents and practicing physicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The LIC is a novel approach to structuring clinical learning that was developed to address shortcomings of the traditional block clerkship model. While only five accredited U.S. medical schools reported having LICs in 2000, we are proud to be one of a growing number of medical schools that have adopted the model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a traditional block clerkship, students focus on one discipline at a time in a short rotation of a few weeks before switching to a new discipline. This has several disadvantages<\/a>, including preventing students from fostering meaningful relationships with patients and preceptors over time and making it difficult for students to develop clinical skills in multiple specialties throughout the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By contrast, in an LIC students are exposed to multiple disciplines simultaneously for the duration of the year. Each discipline is integrated into students\u2019 weekly schedule rather than occurring in successive blocks. This enables students to form and maintain relationships with patients and clinicians, develop clinical competencies over time and across specialties, and experience a continuity of care that more closely mirrors what they will experience as residents and practicing physicians. Student schedules also include protected time each week for structured teaching, skills labs, and other workshops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the college\u2019s community-based approach to education, students complete their clerkship at either the college’s main campus at WSU Spokane or the three regional medical campuses in Everett, Tri-Cities, or Vancouver. Practicing physicians at community clinics and hospitals serve as faculty preceptors, supervising and working alongside students. Students actively participate in patient care as members of interprofessional care teams, developing more meaningful relationships with patients as they care for a patient panel over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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