22.3. Requesting New Clinical Sites
Students are not required to arrange their own clerkships. No student, family member of a student, or friend/acquaintance of a student is permitted to contact a clinical facility to request a clinical education experience or to explore the possibility of establishing a clinical education agreement with that facility.
The Program is responsible for establishing relationships with clinical education facilities and developing preceptors. In keeping with the Program’s philosophy that clinical education is an extension of the academic program, efforts will be directed at developing a circle of clinical facilities and clinical faculty committed to working with this program to provide quality professional education. Any student wishing to discuss the process used by the Program to identify potential clinical education facilities is invited to meet with the DCE or their faculty advisor.
Students are to contact their assigned clinical education facilities only after being authorized by the Program to do so. This will occur after the match process for any given clerkship has been completed and clinical facilities have been notified of the outcome by the DCE.