Students must adhere to the following timeline requirements:
- Complete the MD program within 6 years of matriculation
- Complete all Basic Sciences requirements within 3 years of matriculation.
- Those students who have used the 3 year maximum timeline to complete the Basic Sciences, must start their first core clerkship within 6 months of completing the Basic Sciences (3.5 years from matriculation). This 6 month period is considered to be time “borrowed” from the 3 year maximum allowed to complete the two years of Clinical Studies.
- Students who take more than three years to finish basic sciences, must start core rotations immediately upon completing term 5. This means that students who plan to take the USMLE Step 1 examination must do so at the end of their core clinical rotations. Currently these rotations can only be offered in the UK.
- Those students who have been granted special permission by the CAPPS to exceed the maximum timeline must immediately start their first clerkship upon completing the Basic Sciences.
- Student must allow themselves no less than 2 years to complete the required 80 weeks of clerkships.
Failure to meet this timeline may result in a recommendation for dismissal due to timeline.