Current 4th year. Third year the school takes care of a lot of your rotations whether you’re a year long or non-year long track student. The benefit of non year long is for those with significant connections in the field that can help you. If you have enough connections to get all of your third year core rotations set up on your own, DMU will let you do it. It’s all a matter of paperwork and signing affiliation agreements. 4th year is the difficult part where you are going to do 90% of the Work. DMU has some rotations available through what they call the optimization but it’s not enough slots for all 4th years and a lot of the rotations are not typical rotations (physical therapy, dentistry, pharmacy, etc.).
Third year rotation sites are assigned in 3 ways primarily. 1) Exemption, 2) Personal statement, 3) Lottery.
You have freedom 4th year to rotate in specialties you want, but you will be doing the work to get them. And you also have to meet the required rotations 4 weeks FM, 4 weeks Inpatient Medicine, 4 weeks of community/rural/international Medicine, and 4 weeks of EM if you didn’t do it third year.
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