S100 Weeks

Advanced Clinical Experience

Advanced Clinical Experience / 3rd Year Clerkships

The third-year is designed to ensure that students:

  • Are placed where diagnostic reasoning occurs; i.e., in situations in which patients are, as yet, undiagnosed
  • Are experiencing illnesses from presentation through to diagnosis and treatment
  • Are provided opportunities for spaced, repetitive, and cumulative learning
  • Are evaluated by a robust and objective assessment process that drives learning
  • Are offered the opportunity to explore areas of interest

Students have the opportunity to rotate at a number of Northwell Health Hospitals including:

  1. North Shore University Hospital
  2. Long Island Jewish Hospital
  3. Cohen Children’s Medical Center
  4. Zucker Hillside and South Oaks Hospitals for Psychiatry
  5. Lenox Hill Hospital 
  6. Southshore Hospital

The 3rd year consists of 6 clerkships which are paired for complimentary and optimal learning:

  1. Internal Medicine and Surgery
  2. Pediatrics and OB/GYN
  3. Psychiatry and Neurology

Selectives

In addition to the 6 clerkships, students are given the unique opportunity to take part in three 2 week Selectives which are seamlessly integrated into their 3rd year between clerkships and within the Medicine clerkship. Third-year students select from a variety of specialty and subspecialty experiences offered at the Zucker School of Medicine to give them the opportunity to explore potential careers outside of the core clerkships before entering 4th year. 

ACE Continuity Clinic

All third-year students participate in 6 months of ACE Continuity clinic, a longitudinal experience in which they:

  • Experience meaningful patient encounters in the context of outpatient practice
  • Build longitudinal relationships with patients and preceptors
  • Actively participate in first encounters with patients with as yet undifferentiated clinical conditions and others with chronic conditions that evolve over a year
  • Integrate, both intellectually and practically, classroom work in the basic and social sciences with the care of individual patients and of populations
  • Experience the "system" in action