Clinical Education

Noorda-COM has established affiliation partner agreements with most of the healthcare systems, many hospitals, and physician practice groups in Utah. The affiliation partnerships will allow Noorda-COM’s third-year students to complete core clinical education at facilities within an easy 30- to 40-minute drive from the Noorda-COM campus in Provo. This will make it easier for students to stay in Utah to meet their clinical education (rotation) requirements. View Noorda-COM’s Patient Care Supervision policy here.

Students

Third-year rotations will be 6 weeks in length, instead of the traditional 4 weeks, and will cover the 6 primary areas of specialty (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, OB/Gyn, Pediatrics, Surgery, and Psychiatry). Weeks one and six are accomplished on-campus with weeks two through five on service.

In week one, Noorda-COM faculty will prepare students for discipline specific content through a blending of:

Electronic Medical Records (EMR) documentation
Osteopathic Principles and Practice (OPP) to include Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM)
Holographic, animated, and live patients
Hands-on skills
Augmented, virtual reality and mannequin-based task trainers
Learning objective videos to include Q-Bank material

Students will then complete 4 weeks of clinical service at one of our clinical partners who are all within 30-35 minutes of campus. On service, core clinical rotation academics are supported from campus through online, asynchronous, learning objective-driven content, to include performance feedback using the same format students experienced in years one and two. Clinical Adjunct Faculty will evaluate students on service-related competencies and milestones. During week 6, end of service skills assessments, Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), and shelf exams are accomplished on-campus and led by Noorda-COM faculty.

Clinical Education Handbook

Learn more about Clinical Affairs from Dr. Rhodes here.

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