Key dates to remember
- Mock site visit: Aug. 21-23, 2023
- Official LCME site visit: Feb. 18-21, 2024
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Oversight of clinical education
Elements 6.2 and 8.6 – Required clinical experiences
What: Faculty are responsible for defining the types of patients and clinical conditions that medical students are required to encounter, and a system is in place to ensure successful completion by all students.
Why: Required clinical experiences ensure that students have a robust and diverse learning environment in which to develop clinical skills.
LCME Element 6.2 - Required Clinical Experiences
The faculty of a medical school define the types of patients and clinical conditions that medical students are required to encounter, the skills to be performed by medical students, the appropriate clinical settings for these experiences, and the expected levels of medical student responsibility.
LCME Element 8.6 - Monitoring of Completion of Required Clinical Experiences
A medical school has in place a system with central oversight that monitors and ensures completion by all medical students of required clinical experiences in the medical education program and remedies any identified gaps.
Call to action: All residents and faculty responsible for teaching must be aware of the required clinical experiences of their clerkship. Familiarize yourself with the School of Medicine’s