Clinical Clerkships and Credentialing Verifications

[Kelly Bania]

I recently encountered my first clinical clerkship as part of an applicant’s CV. Not knowing what it was, I asked the applicant and did online research.

From what I’ve learned, clinical clerkships are unpaid observational rotations that medical school graduates, particularly IMGs, participate in as a way to gain clinical experience in the US and it also appears to be something that is seen as a benefit to have when applying for residency programs.

From a credentialing standpoint, is a clinical clerkship something we should be verifying?

[Allison Peterson]

Hi Kelly-
Interesting! I’ve never heard of these before. If it was strictly observational, I would say no.
Good luck-
Allison

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