University of Calgary Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship

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UCLIC prepares students to be physician leaders who can accelerate change in health care. The program recruits and develops students with the intellectual perspective, resiliency, empathy, creativity and passion to change patient care, the health of communities and the medical profession. Students with a strong foundation in these principles will become more engaged, compassionate physicians who will connect deeply with their patients and their patients’ families; feel more comfortable with and be more effective as team leaders and team members; and have the relationship building skills and systems perspectives to more effectively lead change in health care organizations.

LICs are recognized across North America as producing medical graduates functioning well above the level of their colleagues completing traditional urban clerkships. As a result, UCLIC has a match rate over 95% for the first round in CaRMS, with prior students entering the full gambit of residencies including ophthalmology, emergency medicine, obstetrics & gynecology, neurology, medical genetics, internal medicine, pediatrics, general surgery and psychiatry.

Dr. Rithesh Ram

UCLIC Director

Dr. Rithesh Ram, UCLIC Director

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UCLIC is a one year clerkship option for 3rd year medical students interested in learning medicine in a generalist environment. Students are based in a family practice in a rural or regional community and learn the generalist specialties in an integrated fashion by following their patients from the clinic to specialty consults, surgery, delivery, etc. This longitudinal approach allows students to develop an appreciation for the natural history of illness and an understanding of the importance of continuity of care and relational continuity.

A typical week includes: 3-4 half days in the family practice, 2 half days in surgery, with visiting or local specialists, and working with family doctors with extended skills, one half day with the local allied health professionals and an academic day built into your schedules.

The University of Calgary Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship is looking for prospective, current, and former learners for our UCLIC Ambassador Program!

As a UCLIC Ambassador you will:

Participate in promotional videos
Provide success stories from the UCLIC Community
Assist in promoting events, updates, and announcements
Become a part of a network of learners to help grow the UCLIC Brand
Receive bookstore credit for content produced

Interested in becoming a UCLIC Ambassador? Click the button below to register.

Establish a patient centered approach

To establish a patient-centered, community based, pedagogically sound clerkship in selected rural and regional Alberta communities

Explore family medicine

To use family medicine as the foundation of the clerkship to provide students with experience in continuity of care, handling undifferentiated problems, chronic disease management, and in other key areas of family medicine while ensuring that they also develop the knowledge base and skills expected of students in the traditional clerkship.