Student Hand Book 2021-2022

SELECTIVES AND ELECTIVES: 24 WEEKS.
The 24 additional weeks are spent in elective clerkships and mandatory selective clerkships; these must
include twelve additional weeks clerkship in medicine, as arranged by you, which may be spent in
general medicine or in medical or surgical subspecialties.
Twelve additional weeks in mandatory electives: four weeks in preventive medicine; four weeks in
community medicine; four weeks of research. All electives are to be arranged as additional private
financial arrangements with various medical training institutions or clinical coordinators.
Selective Rotations: (12 weeks: 3 x 4 weeks)
Preventive Medicine (Required 4 weeks in Nutrition, Geriatrics, Genetic Counseling, Occupational
Health, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Allergy/Immunology, Infectious Disease)
Community Medicine: (Required 4 weeks in Public Health, Child, or Adult Protective Services, Family
Medicine, Rural Medicine, Addiction Medicine, Palliative Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Urgent
Care)
Research: (Required 4 weeks)
Elective Rotations: (12 weeks: 3 x 4 weeks)
Medical specialties: Cardiology, Nephrology, Neurology, Geriatrics, Hematology and Oncology,
Infectious Disease, Pain Management, Geriatrics, Emergency Medicine, Radiology, Dermatology,
Pulmonology, Urgent Care, Gastroenterology, Pathology, and Anesthesiology
Surgical specialties: Orthopedics, Urology, Neurosurgery, Trauma Surgery, Cardiothoracic surgery,
Vascular Surgery, Plastic surgery, ENT, & Ophthalmology.
Medical Licensure
ECFMG Certification
The Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) is the agency that registers
foreign medical students for the purpose of taking the USMLE Steps 1, USMLE Step 2 CK, CS, and
USMLE Step3. Passing USMLE Steps 1–3 is a requirement for licensure in the United States. To qualify
to sit for the USMLE exams, students must be certified by Windsor University as “officially enrolled.”
On the ECFMG certification form, students must authorize ECFMG to provide examinee-specific
USMLE performance data to Windsor University, including whether the examinee passed the exam
and the examinee’s numerical scores on the two-digit and three-digit scales. Windsor has an interest
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