“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.