Blocks and Courses

This policy outlines the requirement for compliance monitoring and obtaining approval from the Tucson Educational Policy Committee (TEPC) regarding curriculum changes within the undergraduate medical education program.

This approval process ensures that proposed curriculum modifications— documented in a Course Oversight & Yearly Operational Tracking Evaluation (COYOTE) Form—align with education goals and facilitates monitoring compliance with accreditation standards and medical education program policy and guidelines.

Student Manual: 2024-2025 (Clerkship)

This policy establishes guidelines and procedures for attendance and absences during all phases of the Medical Student Curriculum:

Preclerkship Phase:   This curriculum phase of study is defined as the first 18-months of medical school with focus on the 8 basic sciences core courses, Doctor & Patient/Societies course, and the Clinical Reasoning course, including all Pathways to Health and Medicine curriculum sessions intertwined throughout the core courses.

Manual provided to instructors for the clerkship program

The MD curriculum is designed through educational principles that are distinctive to the program. This faculty adopt these principles to ensure medical students will be well prepared for advanced study in any clinical discipline.

This policy dictates how changes to blocks and courses can be made in the Pre-Clerkship Phase.

To provide students with guidelines for examining patients in a sensitive physical exam.

This policy outlines the expectations for medical student use of Electronic Medical Record systems they interact with in the clinical setting.

Establishes policy requiring that health professionals who provide psychiatric/psychological counseling or other sensitive health services to a medical student must have no involvement in the academic assessment or promotion of the medical student receiving those services, excluding exceptional circumstances.

Student Manual: 2023-2024 (Clerkship)