Integration Selective

Integration Selective Course Summary and Objectives 

I wanted to communicate with all of you regarding the new Integration Selective.  I know there are a lot of questions about this and I want to try and provide some clarity.  The attached document has a brief description but I will hit the highlights below.

In the first year of the selective, we have tried to keep the time committment and the requirements to a minimum in order to fit this in with the existing elective schedules.  Although this will likely change over the next couple of years, for the rising 4th year students we have decided to allow any elective here at UNC (inpatient or outpatient) to satisfy the requirement.  This was done to allow for maximum flexibility for each student to choose something that is of interest to him/her.  This must be identified as the integration selective when scheduling with student affairs.  Leanne Shook will then provide me, and Stacey Owen, the coordinator, with a list of students for each 4 week block and we will communicate specifics about the integration portion of your 4 week rotation directly to you.   Please note that any other "selective", such as the Ambulatory Care or Critical Care selectives can't be used for this.  We have also put limits on the maximum (20) and minimum (6) number of students for each rotation.

For this year, the only activity specific to the integration selective will be a presentation of a clinical problem with a basic science correlate that you will prepare and deliver to the group at the end of the 4 week rotation.  This is outlined in the attachment.  The time requirement specific to the integration selective will be modest as well, with only an hour meeting in the first week and then ~2 hours for the presentations at the end of the block.

We hope this is a starting off point for an evolving selective that will emphasize the integration of basic science and clincal medicine as it is practiced in the hospital.  I think all of you can understand the importance of this.  I also think this will be an opportunity for each of you to become an expert on a small portion of clinical medicine that you have an interest in and will encourage you to approach this from the perspective of learning and not simply just satisfying a requirement.  I think you will learn more that way and your presentation will be more interesting to your fellow students.

Please contact me with any specific questions.  Leanne Shook will be doing the scheduling and we (Stacey and/or I) will be communicating with you about specific dates/times as each rotation comes up.

Thanks.

mike