MD’24

The majority of fourth-year students have completed all residency interviews and will submit their rank order lists by  February 28, 2024. Students participating in the military and early match programs (i.e. the  SF Match and AUA Match) have already received their residency appointments for the upcoming year. All graduating  students and their families received a Save the Date for our classwide Match Day celebration which will be hosted at The Warren Alpert Medical School on March 15, 2024. While students eagerly await their Match results from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) , they are also working diligently to complete their remaining clinical requirements for graduation, including the Internship Preparatory Course (IPC), a required fourth-year course designed to prepare students for the first post-graduate year of residency training. This course focuses on generalizable, non-specialty specific knowledge and skills that reinforce content previously covered within the undergraduate medical curriculum.

MD’25

Third-year students are more than half-way through the academic year and are beginning to engage in the specialty decision making process. Approximately 80% of the class has already been assigned a career specialty advisor for the upcoming year. As students work to complete their clinical rotations, they are also actively working with their specialty advisors, Mary B. Arnold mentors, and the Career Development team within the Office of Student Affairs to begin planning their fourth-year schedules and preliminary plans for the upcoming year-long residency application process.

MD’26

Second-year students recently completed the Hematology block and are currently engaged in Gastroenterology, the final block offered this semester. Students also recently participated in the Clerkship grid lottery system to determine the order of their clinical rotations during third year. Upon completing their pre-clerkship requirements, students will enter their dedicated Step 1 Study period, with the majority of students planning to sit for the exam at the end of March through mid April. Following completion of the Step 1 licensing exam, many students will take a well-deserved vacation and then return to campus on April 15, 2024, to complete the Clinical Skills Clerkship (CSC), a two week course designed to prepare students for their transition from the classroom to the clinical setting.  All rising third-year students and their families received a Save the Date for the Stepping Up Celebration on Sunday, April 28, 2024 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm. 

MD’27

First-year students are actively engaged in the Brain Sciences Block and just had Exam #2 on February 16, 2024. Students also recently had an opportunity to showcase their clinical skills during the Doctoring Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) #3 on February 6, 2024. In addition to completing their curricular requirements, students have been diligently working to prepare proposals for summer research assistantships and scholarly concentrations which were due on February 9, 2024. Students continue to engage in pre-clinical electives and other extracurricular activities, many taking on new leadership roles as they transition to Year 2.

PLME

PLME undergraduates are returning to campus after holiday break. Sophomores are currently working with their advising deans to develop their PLME undergraduate Educational Plans to ensure their preparedness for medical school, and students at all levels have finalized and submitted their proposals for the 2024 PLME Summer Research Assistantship (SRA). The PLME is also happy to welcome Iris Tong, MD, as an associate dean of medicine for PLME advising. Dr. Tong has been involved in medical education and advising at both the Medical School and the internal medicine residency program at Brown University throughout her career. She is currently a Mary B. Arnold Mentor, providing longitudinal advising to a cohort of medical students. She is the co-director of the internal medicine consult service for the Internal Medicine Residency Program and a core faculty member of the program’s Women’s Health Track.