6.2 Academic Requirements Policy

*Students should visit the academic credits and requirements for their entering class below for specific modifications related to COVID.

Foundations Phase (for E-22 and subsequent classes)
Entering classes 2022 and beyond, must successfully complete the following to qualify for the Patient Care Phase of their medical training:

• Immersion & Orientation
• Foundations of Clinical Medicine
• Fundamentals of Medical Science & Research
• Infections & Immunity
• Cancer, Hormones & Blood
• Muscles, Joints, Bones & Skin
• Cardiovascular System
• Medicine, Health & Society I
• Respiration & Regulation
• Head, Neck & Gut
• Mind, Brain, & Behavior
• Lifecycle
• Threads
• Integration weeks 1-3
• Medicine Health and Society II
• OSCE (Foundations I & II)
• Consolidation / Comprehensive Basic Science Review
• USMLE Step 1
• Transition to Clerkships
• Independent Investigative Inquiry (III)
• Independent Investigative Inquiry Final Project (III Final Project)

Students who do not engage in the clinical curriculum immediately after completing pre-clinical course work will be expected to meet the clinical requirements that exist at the time the students enter the clinical curriculum.

Foundations Phase (for E-19 through E-21 cohorts)
Entering classes 2019 through 2021, must successfully complete the following to qualify for the Patient Care Phase of their medical training:

• Immersion & Orientation
• Foundations of Clinical Medicine
• Molecular & Cellular Basis for Disease
• Invaders & Defenders
• Circulatory Systems
• Energetics & Homeostasis
• Blood & Cancer and Musculoskeletal
• Mind, Brain, & Behavior
• Lifecycle
• Threads
• Ecology of Health & Medicine/Themes in Medicine (I)
• Clinical Research Methods
• OSCE (Foundations I & II)
• Foundations Capstone, Consolidation & Transition
• USMLE Step 1
• Transition to Clerkships
• Independent Investigative Inquiry (III)

Students who do not engage in the clinical curriculum immediately after completing pre-clinical course work will be expected to meet the clinical requirements that exist at the time the students enter the clinical curriculum.

Patient Care Phase
Students must successfully complete the following to qualify for the Explore & Focus Phase of their medical training:

• Family Medicine
• Internal Medicine
• Obstetrics/Gynecology
• Pediatrics
• Psychiatry
• Surgery
• Integration
• OSCE (Patient Care Phase)
• NBME Subject Exams and/or equivalent clerkship exams

Explore & Focus Phase
Students must successfully complete the following to qualify for consideration for receiving the MD degree from UW School of Medicine:

• Advanced Patient Care clerkships
• Emergency Medicine
• Neurology or Neurosurgery
• Clinical electives
• Integration
• USMLE Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK)
• Transition to Residency
• NBME Subject Exams and/or equivalent clerkship exams

* Students will be advised concerning their clinical training which will include different locations throughout the WWAMI region. All students are required to complete a minimum of two, four-week clerkships in Seattle at one or more of the following hospitals: UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle Children’s Hospital, or Puget Sound VA.

** One of the two 4-week Advanced Patient Care Clerkships must be a Sub-internship.

*** Electives can range from of 2-12 weeks but will usually be either 2-weeks or 4-weeks. Students in the Medical Scientist Training Program and the UW Pathology fellowship who enter the UWSOM prior to 2015 and who do not engage in the clinical curriculum immediately after completing pre-clinical coursework meet the clinical requirements as they exist at the time they enter, with the exception of 8 credits of clinical electives which are waived. These students enter the clinical curriculum in summer of their third year of MD coursework after completion of the PhD or UW Pathology fellowship.

* Students will be advised concerning their clinical training which will include different locations throughout the WWAMI region. All students are required to complete a minimum of two, four-week clerkships in Seattle at one or more of the following hospitals: UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle Children’s Hospital, or Puget Sound VA.

** One of the two 4-week Advanced Patient Care Clerkships must be a Sub-internship.

*** Electives can range from of 2-12 weeks but will usually be either 2-weeks or 4-weeks. Students in the Medical Scientist Training Program and the UW Pathology fellowship who enter the UWSOM prior to 2015 and who do not engage in the clinical curriculum immediately after completing pre-clinical coursework meet the clinical requirements as they exist at the time they enter, with the exception of 8 credits of clinical electives which are waived. These students enter the clinical curriculum in summer of their third year of MD coursework after completion of the PhD or UW Pathology fellowship.

Academic Credit Requirements for Entering 2019 Class & Subsequent Classes

+ Themes in Medicine course change effective and on transcript in Winter 2021.

Themes in Medicine, week seven, 1 week, 1 credit is waived for students who entered the UW School of Medicine in fall 2019.

± Independent Investigative Inquiry requirement is optional for students graduating between summer 2022 and spring 2023 and for the entering class of 2020 due to impacts of COVID-19 and final credits may be below minimum of 283 credits.

* Students will be advised concerning their clinical training which will include different locations throughout the WWAMI region. All students are required to complete a minimum of two, four-week clerkships in Seattle at one or more of the following hospitals: UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle Children’s Hospital, or Puget Sound VA.

** One of the two 4-week Advanced Patient Care Clerkships must be a Sub-internship.

*** Electives can range from of 2-12 weeks, but will usually be either 2-weeks or 4-weeks. Students in the Medical Scientist Training Program and the UW Pathology fellowship who enter the UWSOM prior to 2015 and who do not engage in the clinical curriculum immediately after completing pre-clinical coursework meet the clinical requirements as they exist at the time they enter, with the exception of 8 credits of clinical electives which are waived. These students enter the clinical curriculum in summer of their third year of MD coursework after completion of the PhD or UW Pathology fellowship.

Academic Credit Requirements for Entering 2018 Class

* Students will be advised concerning their clinical training which will include different locations throughout the WWAMI region. The Time in Seattle requirement is waived for students in clerkships during the 2020-2021 academic year due to COVID-19.

± Ecology of Health Medicine, week six, 1 week, 1 credit is waived for students who entered the UW School of Medicine in fall 2018.

** One of the two 4-week Advanced Patient Care Clerkships must be a Sub-internship.

*** Electives can range from of 2-12 weeks, but will usually be either 2-weeks or 4-weeks. For students graduating in June 2022, 40 credits (five months) of electives will be required and 16 credits (two months) of electives can be clinical or approved non clinical electives.

Students who complete CBSR receive credit for one clinical elective pre-COVID-19. In addition, CBSR students must complete at least 16 clinical elective credits for graduation.

Students in the Medical Scientist Training Program and the UW Pathology fellowship who enter the UWSOM prior to 2015 and who do not engage in the clinical curriculum immediately after completing pre-clinical coursework meet the clinical requirements as they exist at the time they enter, with the exception of 8 credits of clinical electives which are waived. These students enter the clinical curriculum in summer of their third year of MD coursework after completion of the PhD or UW Pathology fellowship.

Academic Credit Requirements for Entering 2017 Class

* For students graduating in June 2021, the USMLE Step 2CS is suspended from May 2020 to approximately May 2021 and is not required for graduation.

± Students who leave the curriculum and re-enter the Patient Care Phase in Spring 2020 will have reduced credits due to the shortened clerkship length and impacts of COVID-19.

** Students will be advised concerning their clinical training which will include different locations throughout the WWAMI region. The Time in Seattle requirement is waived for students in clerkships during the 2020-2021 academic year due to COVID-19.

For students graduating in June 2021, one Advanced Patient Care Clerkship is required and the requirement that one of the two 4-week Advanced Patient Care Clerkships must be a Sub-internship is suspended.

*** Electives can range from of 2-12 weeks, but will usually be either 2-weeks or 4-weeks. For students graduating June 2021, 32 credits (4 months) of clinical elective rotations are required and 16 credits (two months) of clinical elective requirements can be met by approved non-clinical online courses.

Students who complete CBSR receive credit for one clinical elective pre-COVID-19. In addition, CBSR students must complete at least 16 clinical elective credits for graduation.

Students in the Medical Scientist Training Program and the UW Pathology fellowship who enter the UWSOM prior to 2015 and who do not engage in the clinical curriculum immediately after completing pre-clinical coursework meet the clinical requirements as they exist at the time they enter, with the exception of 8 credits of clinical electives which are waived. These students enter the clinical curriculum in summer of their third year of MD coursework after completion of the PhD or UW Pathology fellowship.

Academic Credit Requirements for Entering 2016 Class

* Students will be advised concerning their clinical training which will include different locations throughout the WWAMI region. All students are required to complete a minimum of two, four-week clerkships in Seattle at one or more of the following hospitals: UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle Children’s Hospital, or Puget Sound VA.

** One of the two 4-week Advanced Patient Care Clerkships must be a Sub-Internship.

*** Electives can range from 2-12 weeks, but will usually be either 2-weeks or 4-weeks. For students graduating June 2020, 40 credits (5 months) of clinical elective rotations are required and 16 credits (two months) of clinical elective requirements can be met by approved non-clinical online courses.

Students in the Medical Scientist Training Program and the UW Pathology fellowship who enter the UWSOM prior to 2015 and who do not engage in the clinical curriculum immediately after completing pre-clinical coursework meet the clinical requirements as they exist at the time they enter, with the exception of 8 credits of clinical electives which are waived. These students enter the clinical curriculum in summer of their third year of MD coursework after completion of the PhD or UW Pathology fellowship.

Academic Credit Requirements for Entering 2015 Class

* Students will be advised concerning their clinical training which will include different locations throughout the WWAMI region. All students are required to complete a minimum of two, four-week clerkships in Seattle at one or more of the following hospitals: UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle Children’s Hospital, or Puget Sound VA.

** One of the two 4-week Advanced Patient Care Clerkships must be a Sub-Internship.

Students in the Medical Scientist Training Program and the UW Pathology fellowship who enter the UWSOM prior to 2015 and who do not engage in the clinical curriculum immediately after completing pre-clinical coursework meet the clinical requirements as they exist at the time they enter, with the exception of 8 credits of clinical electives which are waived. These students enter the clinical curriculum in summer of their third year of MD coursework after completion of the PhD or UW Pathology fellowship.

Academic Credit Requirements for Entering 2014 Class