2.14 Rules Governing Other Educational Experiences

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2.14 Rules Governing Other Educational Experiences

“Away” electives (those taken at another medical school, away from HMS) cannot fulfill core clerkship requirements. All core clerkships, as well as the required subinternship and 2 advanced clinical electives (8 weeks), must be taken at HMS.
• Students planning on more than 3 months of away elective time must have approval from their Academic Society Master or Associate Master.
• No more than 6 months of electives may be done as away electives.
• Students may not do an away elective if they have any unresolved unsatisfactory grades in any HMS course.
• Students are limited to no more than two clinical electives representing the same course in the same medical/surgical discipline, including away rotations. Students who choose to take more than two will not receive additional academic credit (i.e., neurosurgery at HMS, Hopkins and UCSF only count as 2 electives). 
• Students must have completed the PCE prior to taking away clinical electives.
• To do a rotation at a non-LCME accredited institution (i.e., a foreign medical school), a student must contact the International Programs Fellow in his/her Society for more information and must register for academic credit with the HMS Registrar’s Office.
• No grade is recorded on the HMS transcript for an away elective; only the designation of "CR" (credit awarded towards the degree) is recorded.
• Credit is only awarded upon receipt of the final evaluation of the experience as satisfactory.
• The student is responsible for requesting that the "away" institution submit the final evaluation directly to the HMS Registrar's Office.

 

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