Phase 2 Scheduling

Step 1: Student selection of home campus (September/October)

Step 2: Submit a Phase 2 clerkship travel exemption request if needed (October)

Step 3: Submit your scheduling selections (January)

Step 4: Schedules released (March)

Step 5: Fill out Family Medicine Clerkship survey (April)

Can those who are already placed in Indianapolis be shipped to a regional campus for four months as well?

If we are at the Indy campus and request to do certain rotations away does that count towards the potential assigned up to four months away from Indy?

Are we required to do a rotation at a campus other than our home campus?

If you are staying on your regional campus, can you go to Indy for one specific rotation only?

Are you able to do a rotation outside of Indiana?

If you do phase 1 at a regional campus, can you do phase 2 and 3 at another regional campus (not Indy) and stay there the entire time without having to do some rotations outside of that campus?

Don’t regional campus people have to go to Indy for their peds and other rotations? What other rotations? Has this changed?

It was mentioned that care of dependent minors would be considered for placement in family medicine clerkships. Is that the case for other clerkships as well?

Do regional campus students use the same optimization ranking tool or is it just Indy students?

If our lead advisor is no longer here, who can we talk to about scheduling?

We have too many people that want to stay at our campus and many early decision people that want to leave. It would be mutually beneficial to have an opportunity to swap the students that want to stay with the students that want to leave. People keep saying this simple solution isn’t possible but that seems strange to me. Can you comment on this?

Are there any variables (other than a student’s stated preferences) that improve or reduce the chances of a student getting their preferred rotation schedule (such as home campus, class rank, preferred specialty, research connections, etc.)?

How does the rotation optimization ranking tool actually work? Is there any randomness involved?

How is the order determined? Do we need to submit earlier to get a better spot in the order?

What are special considerations that would allow for students to stay at a particular campus? If I am a primary caretaker for a parent, will I be allowed to stay in my home city?

Would a student submitting their requests later in the window be less likely to get their schedule selections?

Are location selections given first-come first-serve (as opposed to random)?

With the anesthesia/OBGYN block, is the two weeks of Anesthesia at the beginning of the rotation block or at the end the rotation block?

Can I request doing (for example) my family medicine rotation at a specific location?

How do we find the family medicine form and when do we need to submit it?

So family medicine doesn’t count as a regional campus rotation even if you’re doing a partial year at a regional campus?

What is the purpose or value of the electives?

Do the 20 weeks of electives need to be completed during third year or over both third year and fourth year?

Can the MSTP elective count towards the elective requirement?

Can early decision program students take electives at other campuses?

How should we use electives in pursuing career planning? Are electives evaluated or considered by residency admissions committees?

If we are choosing to use our open block month to take an elective, do we select that elective when we preference our rotations?

Do we register for electives at this time?

For non-family medicine clerkships, do we work with the same team during a rotation or do we bounce around with different teams within a department?

Can students request a specific preceptor for a rotation, such as a specific physician for an internal medicine rotation?

Are there review materials and books that are recommended for each clerkship?

What if I choose to retake a clerkship exam, but get a lower score on the retake?

Are we able to preference certain hospitals in the registration process?

Does Phase 3 have open block time too? or is it we have 4 weeks of open block across Phases 2/3?

If an elective is done during the open block month, is it true that the open block month is added to fourth year, giving you an extra month of open block during fourth year?

Where can we find the URLs or QR codes?