Curricular Requirements for Students Graduating in More than Four Years

  • Responsible: Office of Educational Affairs, Senior Associate and Associate Deans
  • Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff
  • Approved by: CCIA
  • Approval Date: March 5, 2025
  • LCME Element: n/a
  • Purpose: UI COM is committed to developing curriculum to meet the needs of the changing healthcare field. As such, the curricular requirements may differ for students matriculating in different years. This policy explains how UI COM students who are graduating in more than four years should identify their curricular requirements.

Policy

All UICOM students are expected to complete the phase 1 curricular requirements of the class with which they matriculated unless an alternative is approved by their campus’ curriculum dean in consultation with the college-wide curricular deans. They are expected to complete the phase 2/3 curricular requirements of the class with which they began their phase 2 curriculum unless an alternative is approved by their campus’ curriculum dean in consultation with the college-wide curricular deans. Students must complete the Phase 2/3 curricular requirements of a single class cohort in their entirety and may not combine requirements of multiple cohorts. If coursework no longer is offered, the campus curriculum dean will determine which cohort’s requirements the student must follow. Students who graduate in summer or fall terms will have the same curricular requirements as students who graduated in spring of the same calendar year.

The TTR course is offered in spring for all students with the exception of Rockford rural medicine (RMED) students, who may take the course in fall. Below are the expectations for the timing of TTR for students graduating in more than four years. Any alternative timing must be approved by a students’ campus curriculum or student affairs dean in consultation with the college-wide curricular deans.

  • Students graduating in the spring are expected to take the Transition to Residency course in the term in which they graduate and on the campus where they are enrolled.
  • An exception to this timing is that RMED students graduating in spring may complete the Transition to Residency course in the December immediately prior to graduation to allow for their spring 16-week preceptorship.
  • Students graduating in summer or fall must complete TTR no sooner than December before the calendar year of their graduation.