Clerkship Activity Tracking System (CATS)

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Clerkship Activity Tracking System (CATS)

Students must enter clinical encounters into the On-Line Clerkship Activity Tracking System.  All students must complete and document required clerkship clinical activity or remediation prior to clerkship end to successfully pass the clerkship.  CATS requirements must be 100% complete in order to receive credit.  Students will be allowed a 48 hour period after the end of the clerkship to enter activity/remediations. Clerkship Directors will use this information to make sure that each student has received ample clinical experience during their respective clerkships. 

Within 6 weeks of completion of clerkship, clerkship directors will enter grades on CATS.  Within 6 weeks of finishing the clerkship, students are asked to complete the clerkship rating form.  Additionally, some clerkships may administer surveys to collect your feedback on individual faculty/residents with whom you have worked.  Once you have completed the on-line rating form, you will be able to access your grade on-line.  Completion of these clerkship rating forms is an academic requirement. In order to maintain anonymity, clerkship directors do not have access the rating forms until all student grades have been submitted to the Registrar’s Office.

Additionally, as a graduation requirement, you must demonstrate appropriate documentation of the following 7 procedures:

            Venipuncture for Sampling of Peripheral Blood*

            Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation*

            Arterial Puncture

            Nasogastric Tube Insertion

            Bladder Catheterization: Male*

            Bladder Catheterization: Female*

            Suturing*

Please enter this information on the Clerkship Activity Tracking System.  You are required to perform three of each of the above procedures marked with asterisks on patients. When you enter this information, an email will be sent to the supervising physician for verification. Appropriate documentation of arterial puncture and nasogastric tube insertion is a grade of 100% on the arterial puncture and nasogastric tube insertion quizzes which you completed during Clinical Correlates Week. Please keep careful track of your progress toward fulfilling this graduation requirement.