{"id":1333,"date":"2017-12-04T11:49:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/?page_id=1333"},"modified":"2018-01-16T12:46:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:46:17","slug":"away-elecives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/dermatology-residency-program\/away-elecives\/","title":{"rendered":"Away Electives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1333\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1333-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1333-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1333-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">A\u00a0one-month elective is currently available for chief residents.<\/li>\n<li>An away elective, be it clinical or research-based, is a rotation at an institution that is not affiliated with the UConn School of Medicine.<\/li>\n<li>Away electives outside of the United States are rarely approved.<\/li>\n<li>Away electives requiring prior approval:\n<ul>\n<li>Any rotation that has educational value and fulfills requirements of the RRC for that discipline but is not required.<\/li>\n<li>Prior approval must be received from the program director.<\/li>\n<li>Once all paperwork is submitted to the Graduate Medical Education Office, the DIO will determine the merits of the request for an away elective.<\/li>\n<li>The paperwork required to apply for an educationally valuable away elective is available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Graduate Medical Education Office<\/a>. Essential components of the necessary paperwork include:\n<ul>\n<li>Educational rationale for requesting an away elective.<\/li>\n<li>Program director\u2019s support for this experience.<\/li>\n<li>Evaluation tool used to evaluate the resident\u2019s experience.<\/li>\n<li>Program\u2019s effort to identify funding support for this experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0one-month elective is currently available for chief residents.An away elective, be it clinical or research-based, is a rotation at an institution that is not affiliated with the UConn School of Medicine.Away electives outside of the United States are rarely approved.Away electives requiring prior approval:Any rotation that has educational value and fulfills requirements of the RRC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"parent":1275,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 20:35:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5736,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1333\/revisions\/5736"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}