Clerkship Absence Make-Up Procedures

All absences from required activities must be made-up. The table below provides the available option(s) to make-up absences from each component of this clerkship. If the required make-up cannot be completed during the clerkship, a student may be required to 1) complete make-up experiences during elective time or 2) reschedule the clerkship to another time.

Please see the Phase 2 and 3 Attendance and Absence Policy for more information.

Inpatient Medicine Make-Up Procedures

Clerkship Component	First Absence	Second Absence	Third Absence	Additional Absences
Inpatient Medicine shift	Clinical problem solvers podcast and email a teaching point to CD/Assoc CD.	1 Extra Long Call or Weekend Day	Extra Weekend day (preferably with the team's senior resident)	Reschedule Clerkship or repeat week.
Sim Session	Clinical problem solvers diagnostic frameworks: "hypoxia through train" + YouTube videos: Hypoxemia - A Practical Diagnostic Approach + Understanding Sepsis (Sepsis Explained Clearly) and clinical problem solvers infectious schema: Dx Schema – Infection in the inpatient	NA	NA	NA
Didactics	Review recorded lectures or other relevant reading assigned by clerkship director.	Review recorded lectures/ materials & email the clerkship directors 1 new teaching point learned.	Review recorded lectures/materials & email the clerkship directors 1 new teaching point learned.	Reschedule Clerkship or repeat didactics.

Short absences (Absences of 1-2 hours in duration): Students should first attempt to prioritize flextime for meetings and appointments. If an absence from a clerkship activity is required, students must request the absence via Phase 2 and 3 Absence Request form. Make-up for a single short absence is not required. Make up for multiple absences totaling 8 hours will be equivalent to one full absence day and make-up will be guided by the table above.