Windsor University School of Medicine

Clinical Clerkship
Information
A Student Guide

2013

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Table of Contents
Clinical Clerkship Summary

Clinical Rotation Structure:

Mandatory Selective Rotations Summary:

Clinical Clerkship Information

Mandatory Selective Rotations

Frequently Asked Questions

Clinical Logs

Naming Your Files

Clinical Logs, Cases, and Assessment Overview

Grading

Percentage Breakdown

Core Exams

Transcript Scoring

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Clinical Clerkship Summary

Clinical Rotation Structure

Cores
(48 wks)

(1) Family Medicine (6 wks)

(2) Pediatrics (6 wks)
(3) Ob/Gyn (6 wks)
(4) Psychiatry (6 wks)
(5) Internal Medicine (12 wks)
(6) Surgery (12 wks)

Electives
(12 wks)

Any three electives of

your choice (4 wks each)

USMLE Step 1

Basic
Sciences

Clinical
Sciences

Selectives
(12 wks)

(1) Community Medicine (4 wks)

(2) Preventive Medicine (4 wks)
(3) Research (4 wks)

FINANCIALLY
COVERED BY
WINDSOR
(INCLUDED IN
TUITION)

FINANCIALLY
COVERED BY
STUDENT (NOT
INCLUDED IN
TUITION)

Mandatory Selective Rotations Summary

Selectives

Community
Medicine

(1) Public Health Medicine

(2) Child/Adult Protective Care
Medical Service
(3) Family Medicine
(4) Rural Medicine
(5) Chemical Addiction Clinic
(6) Urgent Care

Preventive
Medicine

(1) Genetic Counselling

(2) Nutrition-Physiology Medicine
(3) Occupational Health Medicine
(4) Rehab Medicine
(5) Allergy/Immunology
(6) Infectious Disease
Arranged via Dr. Gupta
(dean@windsor.edu) with St. Kitts
faculty Baby Maloor

Research

(1) Online via St. Kitts

(2) Research proposal
(3) Research program

Identify a research problem from a

previous rotation and work-up as a
research proposal. Contact Dr.
Margoles (drrmargoles@aol.com)
Joining an already existing
research lab.

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Clinical Clerkship Information

(1) Clinical Clerkship guidelines and the Clinical Log Sets can be downloaded from the Windsor Web Site
(http://www.windsor.edu/student-dwnld.html)

(2) Electives are your choice and consist of 12 weeks of rotations that you may feel are beneficial although
many students seem to use these electives to make themselves more identified as a potential residency
training candidate at specific residency training. Some of your colleagues are using the electives to rotate
at Canadian programs or UK program or Nigerian program etc. These electives are arranged by you
although in many cases student rely on paying the coordinator group the extra elective rotation fee/per
week since WUSM has recently changed its policy on financing electives and clinical selectives. (Note:
Cores rotations are covered by Windsor University with the medical clinical coordinator groups being paid
by Windsor University.)
Let Dr. Margoles, Associate Dean Clinical Science know if there are questions after reading the below
information: phone 708-235-1940.
(3) Electives and Mandatory Selectives: You may arrange on your own or you can make a separate financial
agreement with a coordinator group to place you in electives lasting 12 weeks and selectives lasting 12
weeks (Note: Ask for the Cook County John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital Attachment: IMG Registration Form
for Electives)

Mandatory Selective Rotations

(1) Research (4 weeks) may be arranged with dean@windsor.edu online with St. Kitts Faculty member
Baby Maloor or again on one's own by making arrangements for a research rotation or by identifying a
research problem from a previous rotation and working the problem up as a research proposal using data
and epidemiology information as for a proposed study, in which Dr. Margoles may be of some help to the
clinical clerk (drrmargoles@aol.com).
(2) Preventive Medicine (4 weeks) can be a Genetic Counselling rotation or a Nutrition-Physiology
Medicine rotation, or a Occupational Health Medicine rotation or a Rehab Medicine rotation, or an
Allergy/Immunology rotation, or an Infectious Disease Medicine rotation.
Once again, the student must make their own arrangements and at times that might mean that a student
pays for that arrangement on his/her own separate payment arrangement.
(3) Community Medicine (4 weeks) is possibly a Public Health Medicine program or a Child or Adult
Protective Care Medical Service rotation, or a Family Medicine Clinic rotation, or a Rural Medicine rotation
or a Chemical Addiction Clinic rotation, or an Urgent Care rotation.

Frequently Asked Questions

(1) Can these selective and elective rotations be attained through IAME/Ms. Kim Douglas, GCamp, Dr.
Rustum, or MHC with Dr.Bekteshi or with other medical clinical coordinator groups? Yes provided that
you enter into a private and separate financial agreement whereby you pay them for their
arrangement services
(2) If we choose to set up these rotations on our own, will our tuition cover the cost and/or will we be
reimbursed from our tuition if we pay for it ourselves? No since this is a tuition increase from the
Board of Trustees now implemented on all students who have less then 56 weeks of rotations
completed by mid Fall. (Note: The average academic cost for teaching a medical student each
year is about $60,000 (Academy of Medical Science Study done in late 1990(s)) while most
USA schools charge a $30,000/year tuition but the schools can rely on subsidies from
physician clinic practice payments and faculty NIH grants as well as pharmacy research money
towards the medical schools teaching expense of over $60,000/year. Obviously Windsor has
no outside financial supplements and must start to income average its tuition accordingly.)

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Clinical Logs
Naming Your Files

In order to efficiently manage submissions and automatically detect them from your folder, every attachment
sent to Windsor must be systematically named using the following template:

(1) ID

(2)
Rotation

(3) Type
of File
Clinical Logs

12345678

Family
Medicine

Cases
Assessment

Format: [ID]_[Rotation]_[Type of File]

Note that there is an underscore (_) between
each of the three titles.
For example,
12345678_Family Medicine_Cases
12345678_Pediatrics_Clinical Logs
12345678_Surgery_Assessment
12345678_Internal Medicine_Cases
12345678_OBGYN_Clinical Logs
Do not forget the underscores! The list of
allowed names is written below.

(1) ID Your ID should be exactly the same as the one in your Database File emailed to you. If you are

unsure, please email Heidi@windsor.edu to find out.

(2) Rotation: The name of the rotation must match exactly as written below, including capitals. The list of
allowed entries for each rotation are:
List of Rotations
Name to be used for that rotation
Family Medicine
Family Medicine
Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Obstetrics and Gynecology
OBGYN
Psychiatry
Psychiatry
Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine
Surgery
Surgery
Your first elective or selective
Elective 1
Your second elective/selective
Elective 2
Your third elective/selective
Elective 3
Your fourth, fifth, and sixth elective/selective
Elective 4; Elective 5; Elective 6
(3) Type of File: The name of the type of submission must match exactly as written below, including
capitals:
Types of Files to be Submitted
Name to be used for that file
Clinical Log Sets
Clinical Logs
Case Files (put both cases into a single document) Cases
Your assessment of the rotation
Assessment
For example:
(1) If your ID is 12345678 and you are submitting your two cases for Internal Medicine, you would name
your file: 12345678_Internal Medicine_Cases
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(2) If your ID is 11001234 and you are submitting your clinical logs for your first elective of Opthalmology,
you would name your file: 11001234_Elective 1_Clinical Logs
(3) If your ID is 12341234 and you are submitting your assessment of your second elective of Community
Medicine, you would name your file: 12341234_Elective 2_Assessment
(4) If your ID is 12345678 and you are submitting your Clinical Logs for your third elective of Cardiology,
you would name your file: 12345678_Elective 3_Clinical Logs
(5) If your ID is 12341234 and you are submitting your assessment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, you
would name your file: 12341234_OBGYN_Assessment

Clinical Logs, Cases, and Assessment Overview

Indeed, it is hard to give new instructions about a new policy: clinical clerkship rotations. Perhaps, the following
step by step might help.
(1) Step One: List ten (10) patients that you felt were worthwhile to highlight some of the activities, as given
in the example sheet (page 54 - 55 of Windsor Clinical Package 2013 http://www.windsor.edu/word/Windsor_Clinical_Package2013.docx)
(2) Step Two: Take any two (2) from that list and do a write up on two of those cases for that rotation and
send in with other required materials. Please combine both cases into a single document. (Note: With
each log set there is a work up template to use as a guide.)
(3) Step Three: You are given a page with eleven (11) questions/statements. Under each question state any
and all activities and experiences that you believe were associated with that statement during the total
rotation. (page 57 - 59 of Windsor Clinical Package 2013)
(4) Step Four: Please include your assessment of that rotation which is used in determining whether or not
that rotation is to be considered worthwhile for other students. (page 49 - 50 of Windsor Clinical
Package 2013)
(5) Step Five: Send in the log set to drrmargoles@aol.com and come to the next Windsor Student Meeting
at THE DOUBLE TREE HOTEL at Skokie, IL (9599 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, IL 60077) on the last Saturday of
each month at noon. At that time the required core exam will be given for your last core rotation.
(6) Step Six: For the core rotations you are to submit clinical log sets and for the electives and selectives
you are to submit clinical logs.

Grading

Percentage Breakdown
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)

40%: Faculty/Preceptor Evaluations

30%: Core Rotation Exam Score
20%: Two patient case work ups
10%: Answers to the 11 statements

Core Exams
Students have two avenues for core exams:
(1) Take six Core Exams after each rotation (one for each Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Ob/Gyn, Psychiatry,
Internal Medicine, and Surgery)
a. The Core Exams will be held on the last Saturday of each Month from 12 noon 4 pm at Double
Tree by Hilton Hotel Chicago, North Shore Conference Center. 9599 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, IL 60077.
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b. Each six week core (Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Ob/Gyn, Psychiatry) will have 25 questions
c. Each 12 week core (Internal Medicine, Surgery) will have 50 questions.
(2) Take one final exit exam after all core rotations have been completed
a. There will be a total of 100 questions
b. The exam will be held in Carbondale, Illinois

Transcript Scoring
Transcripts will be listed as one of the following as dependent upon rotation scores:
(1) P

PASS

(2) PH

PASS with HONOURS

(3) PHH PASS with HIGH HONOURS

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