Year 3/4 Student Information

Military Rotation Information
Office of Clinical Education
HB 7015, Tel: 650-8802

Students receiving military scholarships spend 1 clinical rotation per fiscal year at a military site as part of their service obligation. Military rotations are acceptable with approval of dates and sites from the clerkship in advance. Military students are required to send confirmation copies from the clerkship and site to the Office of Clinical Education - HB 7015 prior to the lottery date. Military students must obtain approval from the clerkship of choice and the Office of Clinical Education must receive:

• 1) clerkship and scheduled time;
• 2) site, contact name, address, and phone of the site; and
• 3) approval confirmation from the clerkship. The deadline for arranging these clerkships falls prior to the Lottery.

Students on a military scholarship are allowed to complete a military rotation in the following:

• Family Medicine
  • 4 or 8 weeks of 8-week rotation
• Keys site may fulfill military obligation
• Medicine Inpatient
  • Not allowed
• Medicine Outpatient
  • 4 weeks of 4-week rotation
• OB/GYN & WH
  • 4 weeks of the 8-week rotation
• Neurology
  • 4 weeks of 4-week rotation
• Pediatrics
  • 4 weeks permissable of 8 week rotation
• Psychiatry
  • Not allowed (subject to change)
• Surgery
  • First 4 weeks of the 8-week rotation.

Rotation must be on a teaching surgical service in a Military Hospital. Such an arrangement will be considered solely for those intending to apply to a military hospital for surgical training, and who have discussed this possibility with the clerkship.

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