Provides medical students the opportunity to take an elective offered for two or four weeks credit that spans across several months and in many instances more than a single academic year starting during the pre-clerkship phase in the M1 or M2 year. Credit for completion of these electives is applied during the fourth year. While students may apply for consideration to more than one longitudinal elective, students are restricted to enrolling in only ONE longitudinal elective. Students applying to a longitudinal elective should be in good academic standing.
Longitudinal electives may include activities in the third and/or fourth year and, therefore, can be taken concurrently with any type of elective including acting internship (AI), intensive clinical experiences (ICE), general elective or part-time elective. Priority will be attending the AI, ICE, and general elective over longitudinal elective activities as students may not miss any components of one elective in order to complete requirements of overlapping elective.
For additional information about longitudinal electives, please contact Amy Guiot, MD, the Phase 3 Curriculum Director at guiotay@ucmail.uc.edu.
This is a 3 year longitudinal experience that students begin in winter of Year 1 and completed at the end of Year 3. The goal of the elective is to prepare students both culturally and linguistically to serve the growing Latino community. Students will develop communication skills to be effective communicators and collaborators with patients, their families and health professionals across a broad range of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.
The Healthy Children: Addressing Social Needs to Improve Health Outcomes is a two--year longitudinal experience that students begin in first (M1) year. It is recommended but not required that students additionally join the UC Med Mentors Program where, under its independent mandate, they would provide mentorship to an assigned elementary school student. For the elective, undertaken concurrently, students will receive 2 weeks of elective credit upon successful completion of all components of the coursework. Subsequently, this elective will meet the requirements of 2 weeks of a 4th (M4) year elective rotation.
The longitudinal elective (M1-M4) is designed to improve the student teacher's mastery of knowledge, communication, professionalism, and teaching skills. Selected upperclassmen will serve as peer teachers facilitating a Supplemental Instruction format which focuses on collaboration, group study and interaction with group study.