Core Clerkships

Kaiser Permanente Northern California provides core clerkship training to students from medical schools throughout the region, including:

• Stanford University School of Medicine
• UC Davis School of Medicine
• UC San Francisco School of Medicine
• UCSF-Fresno School of Medicine
• Touro University
• Drexel University
• Boston University SOM
• California Northstate University COM

Touro University

Touro University medical students are invited to participate in a 3rd year longitudinal program, in which they spend one year at Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa or Napa.

Kaiser Napa-Solano accepts students for third year family medicine clerkships. Please contact your school’s rotation coordinator to set up a rotation.

UCSF

UCSF medical students can choose to do their 6-week core clerkship in Ob/Gyn and/or Pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente East Bay Medical Center or Kaiser Permanente San Francisco. Further information can be found on UCSF iRocket Guide to the Clinical Years.

Kaiser Napa-Solano accepts students for third year family medicine clerkships. Please contact your school’s rotation coordinator to set up a rotation.

UCSF-Fresno

Third year medical students from UCSF-Fresno can participate in a four week Neurology clerkship that takes place primarily at the VA with some time spent also at Community Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Fresno, and the Alzheimer Disease Center. The rotation emphasizes the approach to the Neurologic patient through history and exam and then the analysis of a case and its management. This takes place in both outpatient and in patient settings. Each patient is gone over with one of the core faculty (four at the VA and two at CRMC).  There are clinics in covering geriatric Neurology, Movement disorders, general Neurology, and neuromuscular patients. At CRMC there is a stroke unit. There is also exposure to Brain Cutting, Neuroradiology, and cognitive Neuropsycholgy through special sessions. Teaching is accomplished in addition through review of vignettes and in didactic teaching sessions. The students are expected to write notes on the cases they see which will be in the chart of the patient and the notes will be reviewed by faculty. One afternoon a week is spent with Psychiatry as part of the continuity experience.  All faculty are strongly committed to teaching.

Stanford University

Kaiser Napa-Solano accepts students for third year family medicine clerkships. Please contact your school’s rotation coordinator to set up a rotation.

Drexel University (DUCOM), Philadelphia

Bay Area

The Kaiser Permanente Bay Area Clerkship Program includes a one-year core clerkship program for third-year medical students (MS3) and elective rotations for fourth-year medical students (MS4). Third-year medical students spend one year of core clinical rotations in Ambulatory Medicine, Inpatient Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Surgery.

This is an integrated program where students rotate across Kaiser Permanente Greater Southern Alameda Area (GSAA) and Kaiser Permanents Diablo Service Area (DSA) Medical Centers, including:

• Antioch Medical Center
• Fremont Medical Center
• San Leandro Medical Center
• Walnut Creek Medical Center

This clerkship programs offer students an opportunity to learn within our integrated health care system. Health Plan members are ethnically, socially, and demographically diverse, with the largest number of non-English native languages spoken anywhere in Northern California. Medical students learn within our medical system from a diverse group of patients, physician faculty and staff members.