22.1. Clinical Site Assignments
Clinical clerkships will be arranged by the Program for all students. Students should not expect to have the entire clerkship year scheduled in advance; clerkship blocks will be scheduled on an ongoing basis with every effort made to confirm assignments as far in advance as possible.
Ultimately, the DCE and faculty advisers are responsible for making all clinical education assignments. Factors will include student learning needs and request list, prior academic and clinical performance, and characteristics of the learning environment at the clinical site. Students may not decline a clinical placement; such action will be considered refusal to take a required course. There is no guarantee that assignments will be in the facilities or geographic locations requested by students or that students will complete all clerkships in the metropolitan Boston area.
Students are advised that not all facilities are available for specific requested clinical education experiences. Availability is based on resource constraints of the clinical facilities and on the DCE’s decisions regarding appropriateness of the facility to provide specific clinical experiences in the curriculum and/or to a student’s individual learning needs.