Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine (KPCOM)—Osteopathic Medicine Program 2023–2024 136 All students will receive a financial stipend for each in-person core rural rotation to defray expenses, no matter where their assignment is located. b. M4 Selective Rotation The third core requirement for rural or urban underserved medicine rotation will be taken as an M4 selective rotation and must be in a primary care discipline with few exceptions being considered (see criteria below). No stipend or housing expense costs are provided to students for the selective experience. Students may seek out rural or urban medically underserved experiences throughout the United States and abroad for the selective rotation. Strict criteria for selective rotation approval must be met for the rotation to be sanctioned by KPCOM. When considering sites for approval, the following criteria are considered: • The site is an active medical education training site affiliated with a D.O. or M.D. medical school, but cannot be a KPCOM-established Rural and Urban Underserved Core Rotations site. • The physician supervising the KPCOM student has an active faculty appointment at a COCAaccredited osteopathic medical school or LCME-accredited medical school or be approved by the KPCOM Credentialing Committee, and is an experienced medical educator. • Priority will be given to sites that are designated federally qualified community health centers, county health departments, or Area Health Education Center (AHEC) sites. • The selective rural rotation can be in a rural/urban underserved hospital, inpatient or outpatient. • A physician’s specialty certification and clinical experience will always be reviewed prior to approving the rotation. Selective rotations at core sites will not be approved. 7. Housing for Rural Rotations Housing for core clinical rotations, electives, and selective rotations is not the responsibility of the KPCOM. The KPCOM has available housing for students in certain geographical locations for the required eightweek block rural and urban medically underserved medicine rotations that are significantly distant from the core campuses. The student is not required to utilize this housing during those rotations. Students may not come early or stay late at the provided housing for the rural and urban underserved core rotations. The move-in day to the apartment/housing is the Saturday prior to the rotation start date after 12:00 p.m., and the move-out date is the last Friday of the rotation by 12:00 p.m. The specifics for each housing site is located on Canvas, in the Clinical Education section, in the folder labeled Rural and Urban Underserved Core/Selective Medicine. All management and scheduling of student housing will be carried out through the Department of Rural and Urban Underserved Medicine. All inquiries, concerns, or questions should be directed to that office. No other faculty or staff representative of the KPCOM shall have the responsibility or the ability to make decisions concerning this area. Please be aware that some housing sites require a student application form and/or a Level 2 background check to be completed. Students should respond to correspondence from the Department of Rural
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