22.1. Clinical Site Assignments
The DCE and the clinical team are responsible for making all clinical education assignments. 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. 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 a refusal to take a required course and result in an SDC referral, delay of Program completion, and possible Program dismissal.