Y4 Innovations Survey – Designing “iYear4”

Congratulations! You will be able to waive some requirements for your 4th year elective schedule. You will need to take required Doctoring courses, meet the usual "on campus" week requirement and meet a total of 30 weeks of electives required to graduate. You may waive the core requirement, ICE, and Basic Science components. Please take the time to help us understand your thoughts about your 4^th year. Even if you choose not to drop the 4^th year requirements, this information is helpful to us in order to plan further enhancements to Year 4.

Some of you may have already met with your advisors. If you are making changes to your schedule, please fill out this brief survey. After you complete the survey please print it to take with your advisor to discuss the changes you would like to make. If you have not yet met with your advisor please do so.

Emily Lane, MSW, LCSW

NOTE – Your responses to the survey questions will NOT influence your eligibility to make changes to your schedule. The purpose of this survey is to gather information that will guide the design of Y4 Innovations in future years. The Y4 Innovations process, including aggregate survey results, may be disseminated as conference presentations and publications to share our lessons learned with other medical schools.

What career field are you planning to enter?

Which 4th year pathway are you enrolled in?

As you design your Year 4 schedule, what are your main concerns? Rank up to three (3) items from the list below with 3 being your highest priority.

Preparing for Step 2 CK/CS

Interviewing successfully

Strengthening my basic science knowledge

Improving my existing clinical skills/knowledge

Learning new clinical skills/knowledge

Getting more clinical experience (i.e., seeing more patients)

Expanding my professional horizons (e.g., in teaching, research, advocacy, etc.)

Professional social networking

Deciding what career field to pursue

Achieving work-life balance (e.g., time for vacation, marriage, relocation, etc.)

Other

Specify other concerns:

On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being highest), how confident do you feel about your ability to successfully treat patients as an intern?

On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being highest), how confident do you feel that you will match at one of your preferred locations?