The Anesthesiology clerkship for medical students is a 1-week required core rotation during the third year of medical education.
The Third-Year Core Clinical Clerkships phase is designed to enable students to interact and work with patients under the supervision of experienced senior colleagues and faculty at King-Drew Medical Center. After a 1-week orientation known as Clinical Foundations, students rotate through forty-eight weeks of core required clerkships. The core clerkships include: Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Neurology, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Surgery and six additional specialties or subspecialties: Anesthesiology, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology and Urology.
The wide variety of patients encountered throughout the third year provides students ample opportunity to maximize their history taking and physical examination skills as well as apply pathophysiologic basis of disease to patient care to help formulate appropriate differential diagnoses and consider appropriate diagnostic studies as needed.
