During the Foundations levels of the curriculum, all medical students are administratively scheduled for the same set of courses by the LCOM Registrar. The course coordinators for summer electives enroll students in their courses (e.g., global health or research).

During the clinical levels of the curriculum, medical students create their initial schedules through lotteries run in OASIS.

Offered during the fall of the Foundations II level, scheduling for rising Clerkship Level students is accomplished through a lottery is run to match students to their preferred "grid" or "flight group" and to their preferred clinical sites. When the lotteries conclude, students work with the Clinical Clerkship Team to modify their schedules during this curriculum level.

Handbook Resources:

• Clinical Campus Site Assignments
• Site Assignments: Clerkship Level

Offered during the winter of the Clerkship Year, scheduling for rising Advanced Integration Level students is accomplished through multiple lottery stages, followed by an ongoing add/drop period. The lottery is run to match students to their preferred fourth year rotations.

When a lottery stage is run, it randomizes all of the participating students, then takes the first student on the list, looks at their selections and tries to place them in the highest prioritized selection. If the selection is already filled, it moves to that person’s second selection, until they are placed in something or until no open selections remain. Once the whole list of students has received the highest prioritized selection available when each name was chosen, the process repeats itself: all of the students are re-randomized and the software takes the first student off the list and looks at the first selection that has not been tried yet. OASIS continues this process round after round until all of the students have had all of their selections either placed or attempted to be placed.

Once the lottery process concludes, an add/drop period opens and remains in place throughout the Advanced Integration Level. When add/drop opens, students work with individual course coordinators to register for courses. The Advanced Integration Level Curriculum Coordinator is the primary resource to assist students with away rotations.

Resources:

• Advanced Integration Level Student User Guide (PDF) 
• Advanced Integration Level FAQs (PDF)
• Information for Visiting Students (PDF)
• Site Assignments: Advanced Integration Level