1. The clerkship is designed to be an active learning experience. The way to learn is to take care of your patients in the most thoughtful, caring, and conscientious manner. The clinical problems that you encounter in your patients will serve as springboards for investigation. If your patient has hemochromatosis, you will become expert in hemochromatosis--both to help the patient get better, and to inform yourself.
   
   
2. Description of Rotations
   There are three blocks of 4 weeks each. They are:
   1. 4 weeks at New York Presbyterian Hospital on the Medicine service, AND
   2. 4 weeks at an Affiliate Hospital (all in general medicine), AND
   3. 4 weeks at New York Presbyterian Hospital and/or Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Cardiology and Intensive Care
      
      
   You may indicate your preference for the floor assignment at NYPH, and for the choice of affiliate hospital. About 5 weeks before the beginning of the clerkship, you should receive an email that links to a web-based questionnaire on which you may indicate your preference.
   
   
3. Learning in a Clerkship
   The model for learning by caring for patients is:
   1. Collect clinical data
   2. Analyze the data
   3. Make a plan
   4. Review this process with a supervising physician. Modify your interpretation based on this step
   5. Act