Courses for Longlook
Welcome to the RuralMedEd Longlook Program
Longlook is what the medical education literature refers to as a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (LICs).
LICs have the following common core elements:
- Medical students participate in the comprehensive care of patients over time.
- Medical students have continuing learning relationships with these patient's clinicians
- Medical students meet, through these experiences, the majority of the year's core clinical competencies across multiple disciplines longitudinally.
The Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) model, is influential nationally and internationally, completely restructures students’ (and their patients’) experience of caregiving. This patient-centred redesign eliminates the traditional, short “block rotations.” Students see patients through all phases of diagnosis and treatment, including hospitalizations, discharge follow-up and even home visits.
A positive rural medicine experience
Experience in working within a clinical team
Opportunities to develop your professional practice
Opportunities to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
Continued support to pass assessments
Skills for success in internship and life
Choosing Longlook
There are 2 different types of Longlook depending on your placement. These are Amalgamative or Blended. The structure of your placement is determined by the onsite supervisors and medical educators.
Longlook is best suited to students who
- Like Autonomy
- Are flexible
- Able to work together and live together in shared accommodation
- Can live in relative isolation from their existing social contacts
- Enjoy a 'hands-on' experience
