116 Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine (NSU MD)—Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) Program 2024–2025 Students are expected to participate in ALL scheduled orientation activities, as well as required classes, exams, and other performance assessments, and required Office of Student Affairs activities, from the first through the last date in each semester that appears on the academic calendar, excluding mid-semester breaks. A matriculating medical student who is not physically present at the beginning of Year 1 (which will generally be at 8:00 a.m. on the Monday of Orientation and Professional Immersion Week) without an excused absence will forfeit the student’s position in the class. All fees and tuition that have been paid by that student will be refunded, and the position will be offered to a student on the alternate list. Blocks, courses, and clerkships listed in the M.D. program academic calendar are organized to begin and end on common dates in each year or semester and generally have a uniform weekly schedule. During a typical week, block and course activities (lectures, labs, small groups, clinical experiences, and examinations) will be scheduled during no more than seven half days, with on average three half days kept free for independent study. Block and course directors are required to adhere to approved NSU MD academic calendars when scheduling their blocks and courses. Examination dates and times are coordinated and timed to attempt to ensure a reasonable workload for students. During the third and fourth years of medical school, students will actively participate in a lottery process to create their clerkship and rotation schedules within the overall framework of the NSU MD academic calendar and the curriculum requirements. NSU is officially closed a few national holidays, including Labor Day; Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday; a winter holiday on varying days during the period that includes Christmas Day and New Year’s Day; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day; Memorial Day; and Independence Day. The dates of the university holidays for each year can be found at nova.edu/hr/holiday-schedule.html. NSU MD is closed and does not hold classes on university holidays; however, during clerkships and Year 3 and Year 4 rotations, students may be expected to work and take call on these days (depending on the patient care activities at their assigned clinical sites), or to attend other scheduled activities. Academic Evaluation and the Competency-Based Grading System Blocks, Courses, and Clerkships The NSU MD curriculum is organized in two phases (preclerkship and clerkship). In the preclerkship phase, each semester includes a series of integrated basic science blocks, which occur concurrent with the Practice of Medicine clinical courses. The clerkships are organized as a series of three Clerkship Modules, each of which includes two or more required clerkships. Student performance is assessed in each block, course, clerkship, and elective. The Student Progress and Advising Committee (SPAC) monitors student performance based on the defined standards for Satisfactory Academic Progress, which include the requirement that students must pass each block, course, clerkship, and elective in the curriculum. Course numbers and credits are assigned to each block, course, clerkship, and elective, which vary in the number of credits, intensity of scheduled time, and duration. In the preclerkship phase, the blocks and courses are organized to begin and end on common dates in each year or semester, and generally have a uniform weekly schedule. Students are expected to participate in scheduled curricular activities from
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