How It Works
Students select either the Vermont Campus or Connecticut Campus as their homebase for Level 2: Clinical Clerkships and Level 3: Advanced Integration. The clinical clerkship year is designed to build on competencies acquired in Level 1 to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for clinical care and decision-making in a variety of medical settings.
Both campus environments blend the best of traditional academic medical centers with community health care. Students are mentored and supervised by Larner faculty members at all clinical locations and are provided opportunities for building professional, collegial communities.
Vermont and New York Clinical Sites
Students based at a Vermont or New York site will enter a clinical lottery for the discipline- specific rotations. Traditional clerkship rotations include Surgery, Inpatient Medicine, Ambulatory Medicine, Family Medicine, Neurology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Obstetrics/Gynecology.
Connecticut Campus Clinical Sites
Students based at the Connecticut Campus will complete most clerkships at the Western Connecticut Health Network’s Danbury and Norwalk locations.
Connecticut Campus Clinical Sites
Global Health Program
The Connecticut campus hosts the Global Health Program partnership. This program provides an excellent opportunity to deepen students' real-world experience working with diverse populations.
Global Health Program
The Global Health Program is a partnership with Nuvance Health that centers on international partnerships in sites around the world. The program focuses on improving patient care and medical education through cooperation and the exchange of ideas. By exposing students to different health care systems and socioeconomic structures, the program aims to give an understanding of the challenges in providing and improving patient care in our partnership countries.
Fourth-year students may choose to apply to an elective Advanced Integration experience in one of our five locations: Dominican Republic, Russia, Uganda, Vietnam or Zimbabwe. First-year students at either the Vermont or Connecticut campus may apply for a summer Global Health elective between their first and second year of medical school.
The program offers close engagement in the cultural and educational exchange that characterizes global health. Electives are entirely subsidized, and participants are chosen through an interview process.