Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (LIC)

The second curriculum innovation is the restructuring of the third year of medical school for all students matriculating at SCM in the Fall of 2023 and beyond, and it changes the third year from traditional block rotations during which students take clinical clerkships sequentially to a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC).  The LIC model integrates training in all clerkships synchronously across the entire academic year, allowing students several advantages which include transferring knowledge and skills across disciplines, better continuity of patient care across the year, and improved clinical supervision by faculty.  The LIC will officially launch in July of 2025, when students who matriculated at SCM in the Fall of 2023 begin their third year of medical school training.