title: Alliance for clinical education perspective paper: recommendations for redesigning the "final year" of medical school.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Although medical school typically lasts 4 years, little attention has been devoted to the structure of the educational experience that takes place during the final year of medical school.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this perspectives paper, we outline goals for the 4th year of medical school to facilitate a transition from undergraduate to graduate medical education. We provide recommendations for capstone courses, subinternship rotations, and specialty-specific schedules, and we conclude with recommendations to medical students and medical schools for how to use the recommendations contained in this document.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We provide an overview of general competencies and specialty specific recommendations to serve as a foundation for medical schools to develop robust 4th-year curricula and for medical students to plan their 4th-year schedules.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Internal Medicine , Section of Hospital Medicine, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine , Chicago , Illinois , USA.
authors.forename: Shalini T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chao
authors.forename: Jonathan L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Drucker
authors.forename: Nadine T
authors.initials: NT
authors.lastname: Katz
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nesbit
authors.forename: Brenda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Roman
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wallenstein
authors.forename: Gary L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Beck
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum / Q000639:trends*; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States
keywords: 4th year; competencies; curriculum; undergraduate medical education