Courses and Clerkships
All the following courses, except those listed as electives, are required of students working toward the degree of Doctor of Medicine. The electives designated may be chosen with the consent of the instructor. Detailed course descriptions are available under individual departments.
Check the Catalogue (pages 490 to 496)
Clerkships Program
Orientations
Medicine Year I Orientation
The Office of Medical Student Affairs hosts an orientation session to welcome all upcoming medical students to the Faculty of Medicine. The purpose of this orientation is to mark the start of the academic year and to orient the new students to the major tasks ahead of them. In addition, they will get to know more about the campus, Faculty, meet classmates and deans and have a comprehensive view about the schedule of the year. The Office of Medical Student Affairs aims to support all students to be more comfortable in their new environment.
Medicine Year III Orientation
The Office of Medical Student Affairs hosts an orientation session for the medicine students starting a new juncture or transitional period at year three of medicine. This orientation aims to welcome the medical students to clinical years of medicine where they will truly begin applying their knowledge to patients. The orientation covers both clinical and administrative topics required prior to the start of clerkships. Thus, the attendance of such orientation is mandatory.

AUB Electives
The Intramural Elective Form
The Elective Evaluation Form
Elective Rules:
AUB students are entitled for two Home Electives that should be taken at AUBMC and two Electives that can be taken abroad or at AUBMC.
- Electives done abroad should be in a University Hospital/ Medical Center
- Electives in public hospitals and private clinics are not accepted
- Two Home Electives at the same department are not accepted unless one is clinical and one is research.
- Two electives at the same department and at the same Facility are not accepted.
- Two electives at two different departments at the same facility are accepted.
- Two electives at the same department at two different facilities are accepted.
Two electives can be accepted at the same department and facility if one is clinical and one is research.
- For HE/ Elective requests, please fill the HE/ Elective form and send it to the Office of Medical Student Affairs Office 4-6 weeks earlier to the start date of the rotation
- Every elective/ HE has to be evaluated by an Attending or Chief Resident. The evaluation form should be submitted to our office directly after the completion of your elective in order to be able to provide you with a grade.
- Research electives of 4 or 8 weeks are accepted, in basic or clinical science.
For research electives to be approved, please ask your mentor to fill the Research Requirements form and submit it to our office for approval before you start.
- At the end of the research elective, your research mentor should fill the attached research evaluation form.
Home electives and electives are open to all departments; the decision of approval or rejection refers to the department. Please find below a list of home electives (not limited to the below) taken this year:
- Dermatology
- Radiology
- ENT
- OPH
- Anesthesia
- Pathology
- Cardiology
- GI
- OB-GYN
- Oncology
- Radiation Oncology
- Plastic Surgery
- General Surgery
- Orthopedic surgery
- Vascular Surgery
- Neuro surgery
- Anatomic Pathology
Anesthesiology | 3 | 1 month | Dr. Christian Rouphael | 4 weeks | 4 weeks | Intramural Elective Form |
Dermatology | 2 | 3-6 months | Dr. Mazen Kurban | 8 weeks | 4 weeks | Intramural Elective Form |
Diagnostic Radiology | 4 | 1 month | Dr. Lara Nassar | 4 weeks | 4 weeks | Intramural Elective Form |
Emergency Medicine | 4 | 1 month | Dr. Nagham Faris | 8 weeks | 4 weeks | Intramural Elective Form |
Family Medicine | 2 | 1 month | Dr. Beatrice Khater | 8 weeks | 3 weeks | Intramural Elective Form |
Human Morphology | 3-4 | 1 month | Chairperson | 8-9 weeks | 4 weeks | Intramural Elective Form |
Internal Medicine | 3 | 3 months | Dr. Marwan Refaat | 4 weeks | 4 weeks
| Intramural Elective Form |
Obstetrics & Gynecology | 1 | 1 month | Dr. Abdallah Adra | 4 weeks | 4 weeks
| Dept. website |
Ophthalmology | 6 | 2 months | Dr.Joanna Saadeh | 4 weeks | 4 weeks
| Intramural Elective Form |
Otolaryngology & HNS | 4 | 3 months at least | Dr. Zeina Korban | 4 weeks | 4 weeks | Intramural Elective Form |
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | 1
| One month | Dr. Rami Mahfouz | 4 weeks | 4 weeks | Intramural Elective Form |
Pediatrics | 1 | 3 months | Dr. Nadine Yazbeck | 4 weeks | 4 weeks | Intramural Elective Form |
Pharmacology | 1 | 1 month | Dr. Ramzi Sabra | 4 weeks
| 4 weeks | Intramural Elective Form
|
Physiology | 3-4 | 1 month | Chairperson | 8-9 weeks | Four weeks | Intramural Elective Form |
Psychiatry | 2 | 3 months | Dr. Farid Talih | 8 weeks | 4 weeks | CV, letter of intent |
Radiation Oncology | 2 | 2 months | Dr. Zeina Ayoub | 8 weeks | 2 weeks | Intramural Elective Form |
Surgery | 6 | 1 month | Dr. Moustapha El Lakkis | 8 weeks | 4 weeks | Intramural Elective Form |
International Electives
Over the last 10-15 years, the Faculty of Medicine at the American
University has been in connection with several US and other universities
and medical centers through affiliations and agreements regarding academic
collaboration in student exchange (see list below). These agreements
tremendously increased in number in the last seven years, and are governed
by mutually signed Memoranda of Understandings and affiliation agreements. The
conditions and terms vary from one institution to another. Some of them offer non-tuition-based
rotations to AUB students with lodging and boarding on students’ expense, while
others are tuition-based rotations and the students pay these fees.
Here are some of the Affiliated Universities visited by AUB medical students lately:
- George Washington University
- Washington University at Saint Louise
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Columbia University
- University of Toledo
- University of Massachusetts
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Trinity College at Dublin
- The University of IOWA
- Johns Hopkin