Branches of PREP
Adam and Preston, the founders of PRISM
Pre-clerkship Introductions to Specialities in Medicine (PRISM)
University of Saskatchewan
The following are excerpts from “PRISM: Pre-clerkship Introductions to Specialities in Medicine”:
“PRISM aims to let first-year students explore a wide-variety of medical specialties (of students’ choosing) at the pre-clerkship stage. PRISM is not part of the USask CoM PREP program (Physician Recruitment Agency of Saskatchewan's Rural Externship Program), which helps second-year students gain experience in rural family medicine and prepares them for clerkship.
PRISM will be offered to first-year students as a two-week, all-inclusive, early summer experience. It will provide students with a unique and rich learning environment and direct exposure, early in their medical education.
Adam and Preston, who are both entering into their fourth and final year in the MD program at the USask, are currently working alongside faculty to get the program off the ground. In collaboration with a few select second-year medical students (who will direct and develop the program throughout the year), their aim will be to unroll PRISM next summer, for the class of 2024.
“As medical students, we are extremely privileged to have so many potential career options to choose from; yet with this great volume of possibilities comes difficulty in gaining adequate exposure to these areas of specialty,” Preston said.
…More specifically, PRISM will allow our medical students to engage in lunchtime didactic talks and Q&A sessions with residents and attending physicians, practice speciality-specific simulations, enjoy procedural skills circuits and team-based challenges, and actually see and learn firsthand what these physicians do for a living, and whether that career and lifestyle suits them. This program is highly sought out by medical students at Dalhousie and has the potential to be very successful at the CoM here in Saskatchewan.”
-“PRISM: Pre-clerkship Introductions to Specialities in Medicine” at https://medicine.usask.ca/news/2019/mymd/prism-pre-clerkship-introductions-to-specialities-in-medicine.php