Well, I can only speak for the Clinic kids, but I do know that the UP students have been practicing clinical skills even longer than us (Where's Myuu or Auriga when you need them)
We will see patients every other week for the first two years and one half day a week during our research year. This is "longitudinal" because we have the same "preceptor" for the whole two years - a personal mentor to help us become the best clinicians we can possibly be. Also, it is an opportunity (in theory) to see the same patients over that time period.
Many of us are assigned in satellite, community-based centers. On "off" weeks we practice physical diagnosis and clinic skills with standardized patients. That way we reinforce of skills with real patients concurrently to learning skills.
Longitudinal clinical activities for the University Program, you ask? Well, now. Have I got some longitudinal clinical activities for you!
While there are a number of multi-week physical diagnosis activities with standardized patients during the first year (and a bunch of one-off focused skills sessions in both years), starting in the second half of the first year, you may start an 11-week (once a week) preceptorship with a local physician from one of several specialties (you pick a broad category, then everybody gets assigned based on preference). I believe your choices are family medicine, peds, emergency, internal, or a write-in of your choice. I would check for you, but I'm currently on a bus in the middle of some prime Ohio cornfields a couple hundred miles southeast of our beloved Cleve. So, if someone could verify that list it'd be super helpful. You have the option of doing it in the spring, summer, or subsequent fall so that if you have conflicts with extracurriculars or grad classes (more likely), you won't have conflicts. I'm doing CPCP right now, actually. I had requested a surgeon and got one (yay!). I interview patients (chief complaint, history, review of systems, focused physical), report back to my preceptor, and go back in with him to talk to the patients about their options. It's definitely a highlight of my week, though the idea of interviewing real, honest-to-god patients did scare me at first.
In addition to that, I am also currently doing PD3, which is a 5-week (again, once a week in the afternoons) preceptorship in which you do a full history and physical on, again, real, honest-to-god patients. Having trouble remembering everything you need to do that you learned about in PD1 and 2? This is a great, yet nonthreatening, trial by fire. You learn quickly. I'm currently doing this at a local charity hospital on one of the medicine floors, but I've heard that some other students are in ERs. This one is self-scheduled, so you get to pick where you go, so long as there's space.
I am learning _so_ much right now.
As I mentioned earlier, don't forget about the frequent clinical excursions throughout the first and second years, be they RAMP (four experiences early in your first year designed to show you the breadth of the field), clinical immersion weeks (a week toward the end of each block, where you are treated to seeing patients who have conditions very related to what you've just studied), or PD.
Hope that helps. Also, if this has been typo-laden, I blame two things: 1. Greyhound, 2. My phone.
As to people interviewing on Monday, I'm interviewing then, though I'm sure that's not at all what you meant.
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This is my first interview...I sort of wish my first one wasn't at a school I want to go to so badly. Every time someone asks why I want to go to Case I think they regret asking because I go on and on. 
