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# Clerkship Key Dates
## **Surgery-Anesthesiology**
**FlexTime:** Specific Dates listed below.\ **Didactics:** Specific Dates listed below.
### **Assessments:**
**Direct Observation:** 5th Friday of the Clerkship.
**NBME CAS Exam (AM):** 6th Friday of the Clerkship — administered on the **final Friday of the clerkship**
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| Rotation | Clerkship Start Date | Clerkship End Date | Flextime
Starts at 1PM | Didactics | Direct Observations | Final Grades Due |
| 1 | 2/23/26 | 4/3/26 | 3/4/26
4/2/26 | 3/16/26 | Friday, 3/27/26 | 5/15/26 |
| 2 | 4/13/26 | 5/22/26 | 4/22/26
5/21/26 | 5/4/26 | Friday, 5/15/26 | 7/3/26 |
| 3 | 6/1/26 | 7/10/26 | 6/10/26
7/9/26 | 6/22/26 | Thursday, 7/2/26 | 8/21/26 |
| 4 | 7/27/26 | 9/4/26 | 8/5/26 9/3/26 | 8/17/26 | Friday, 8/28/26 | 10/16/26 |
| 5 | 9/14/26 | 10/23/26 | 9/23/26 10/22/26 | 10/5/26 | Friday, 10/16/26 | 12/4/26 |
| 6 | 11/2/26 | 12/11/26 | 11/11/26 12/10/26 | 11/23/26 | Friday, 12/4/26 | 1/22/27 |
| 7 | 1/4/27 | 2/12/27 | 1/13/27 2/11/27 | 1/25/27 | Friday, 2/5/27 | 3/26/27 |