Provides medical students the opportunity to take an
elective offered for two or four weeks credit that spans across several
months and in many instances more than a single academic year starting
during the pre-clerkship phase in the M1 or M2 year. Credit for
completion of these electives is applied during the fourth year. While
students may apply for consideration to more than one longitudinal
elective, students are restricted to enrolling in only ONE longitudinal
elective. Students applying to a longitudinal elective should be in good
academic standing.
Longitudinal electives may include activities in the third
and/or fourth year and, therefore, can be taken concurrently with any
type of elective including acting internship (AI), intensive clinical
experiences (ICE), general elective or part-time elective. Priority will
be attending the AI, ICE, and general elective over longitudinal
elective activities as students may not miss any components of one
elective in order to complete requirements of overlapping elective.
For additional information about longitudinal electives, please contact Amy Guiot, the M4 Elective Director at guiotay@ucmail.uc.edu.
This is a 3 year longitudinal experience that students begin in winter of Year 1 and completed at the end of Year 3. The goal of the elective is to prepare students both culturally and linguistically to serve the growing Latino community. Students will develop communication skills to be effective communicators and collaborators with patients, their families and health professionals across a broad range of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.
The Healthy Children: Addressing Social Needs to Improve Health Outcomes is a two--year longitudinal experience that students begin in first (M1) year. It is recommended but not required that students additionally join the UC Med Mentors Program where, under its independent mandate, they would provide mentorship to an assigned elementary school student. For the elective, undertaken concurrently, students will receive 2 weeks of elective credit upon successful completion of all components of the coursework. Subsequently, this elective will meet the requirements of 2 weeks of a 4th (M4) year elective rotation.
The longitudinal elective (M1-M4) is designed to improve the student teacher's mastery of knowledge, communication, professionalism, and teaching skills. Selected upperclassmen will serve as peer teachers facilitating a Supplemental Instruction format which focuses on collaboration, group study and interaction with group study.
Interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) has the potential to positively affect the lives of persons living with HIV/AIDS. This course is designed to provide learners with foundational knowledge of HIV prevention and care and to develop the ability to work as a member of an interprofessional collaborative health care team. Learners will explore options for involvement in HIV care as part of their health care career and will be inspired to lifelong learning related to HIV care and IPCP.