Fall semester of 2022 ended very successfully. Students completed rotations in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Oregon during their last months in the Program. They came back at the end of each rotation with great stories of all they had learned and gotten to do at their clinical sites. Students have wonderful things to say about our clinical partners who spend so much time teaching, above and beyond their many other responsibilities. We also continue to get excellent feedback on our students, both on written evaluations at the end of rotations, as well as in-person feedback during site assessments. Preceptors routinely comment that our students are their favorite students to have. We are very proud of the effort they put into learning about the art of taking care of patients, as well as the contributions they make as part of healthcare teams in many different communities.
The Program continues to evolve, with more and more supplemental activities and methods to enhance clinical learning. Students take part in more OSCEs (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations), have more experiences learning in a hands-on fashion via standardized patients and simulated patients, have more interdisciplinary interactions, and have more opportunities to utilize the latest in medical technology and assessment (i.e., POCUS-point of care ultrasound) than ever before.
More students had formal job offers or at least good prospects of jobs after graduation than they have in the past several years. The disciplines that have been most popular for this cohort to accept jobs in after graduation are Family Medicine and Urgent Care/ER, with a couple taking jobs in less common specialties such as Gastroenterology and critical care.
We can’t wait to see the Class of 2022 thrive in their new careers.
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