US

CLINICAL PLACEMENT
The placement process begins after promotion to the clinical program and consists of the
following process:

1. By July 1, you must email the placement coordinators at clined@sgu.edu confirming the
month you intend to begin clinical rotations and the date you expect to take Step I.
2. The week of July 8 the placement coordinators will email notification of your clinical
assignment based on information provided by you to date, this email notification does
not give students permission to contact the hospital. Under no circumstances should a
student arrive at any hospital until receiving a confirmation letter; to do so is contrary to
school and hospital policy and, in some cases, in violation of state regulations. A student
can only contact a hospital and start there after being confirmed by the Office of Clinical
Studies as described below.
3. Students assigned to a NY hospital must submit completed NYS paperwork to the
Office of Clinical Studies no later than July 20. This consists of:
NYS application
NYS Infection Control Certificate
a $20 check payable to NYSDOE
A passing Step I score is also required for NYS paperwork and must be submitted to
clined@sgu.edu by August 3.
4. Once you receive your assignment notification, you can plan on travel and housing
arrangements. However, keep in mind that if you change your plans, for example,
postpone Step 1 or fail to meet the NYS deadlines, your assignment could change and
may result in a different assignment or different start date at the same hospital.
Therefore, take this into consideration before finalizing your arrangements.

THE CONFIRMATION PROCESS

I. FOR ALL CLINICAL PLACEMENTS
After satisfactorily completing all Basic Science requirements, including BSCE II students
must:
A. Be in financial good standing.
B. Have health insurance.
C. Have their St. Georges University School of Medicine health forms cleared by the
Student Health Records Department (sconway@sgu.edu). You will be sent a
separate memo with details about health form clearance.
D. Request a criminal background check to be done by SGU by emailing Ms. Leslie
Marino (lmarino@sgu.edu) with the statement I give permission for SGU to
complete a criminal background check.
E. NYS approved Infection Control Training course. Submit a certificate to
clined@sgu.edu attesting to completion of a course.
(Instructions about the web-based courses will be sent to the class after completing
the 5th Term).
F. Read the Clinical Training Manual located on the clinical website under clinical FAQs
and complete the quiz.

G. Complete the following web-based assignments in SAKAI by August 1:

Cultural Competency review course.
(2016-01-CULT999-GD-0-Cultural Competency)
Communication Skills Course A
(2016-01-CSKA999-GD-0-Communication Skills Part A)
Emergency Medicine Course.
(2016-01-ZEME999-GD-0-Emergency Medicine)
H. As described above students placed in NY hospitals must complete additional
paperwork which will be included with your July 8th placement notification.

II. US CLINICAL PLACEMENT
Once you receive your Step 1 score, email the two page PDF of your Step I score immediately
to clined@sgu.edu. If youve completed all the above, the Office of Clinical Studies will email a
confirmation letter with orientation information to you. This confirmation letter validates and
finalizes your email assignment.
The Office of Clinical Studies assigns all students. We cannot guarantee that your placement will
be according to any of your requests. In general, students grades, USMLE Step I score or
citizenship do not determine priority. The placement process starts by trying to accommodate
all students requests. This is often not possible. In all cases the clinical placement coordinators
will review the information and make a decision. Final determination is frequently made by
lottery.
After starting at a US hospital, students must do all third year rotations available to them in that
hospital program. The Office of Clinical Studies will subsequently schedule any remaining third
year rotations not available at the starting hospital on an individual basis. For fourth year
rotations, students can apply to any of our affiliated hospitals listed in the Clinical Training
Manual.

III. OPTIMAL STEP I TIMETABLE
For those students who wish to train in the US, a passing score on the USMLE Step I is required.
Most students should take about eight weeks to prepare for USMLE Step I after leaving
Grenada in May and plan to take Step I no later than July 14. After you take Step I, please email
a copy of your test appearance receipt to (clined@sgu.edu) in the Office of Clinical Studies.
Since scores take approximately 3 weeks to be returned to students, you should receive your
USMLE Step I score on August 3. Please forward the two page PDF file you receive from ECFMG
to clined@sgu.edu in the Office of Clinical Studies. If you do not receive your Step I results on
or before August 3, email clined@sgu.edu.
IV. UK CLINICAL PLACEMENT
Students who wish to go to the United Kingdom should indicate that on the EPIF. The Clinical
Placement Coordinators will then send you additional details and instructions. You can start
clinical training in the UK provided you have a passing score on the BSCE 2. The UK office will
send placement confirmation notification once the requirements mentioned above are met.
For those starting clinical rotations on July 11 the deadline for web-based courses is May 27.
For those starting October 3 the deadline is August 19. Please check the UK website as soon as
possible.