Third-year students may have the opportunity to participate in an alternative curriculum that has two six-month blocks – one that is exclusively inpatient and the other that is exclusively ambulatory. Advantages to this curriculum include: longer experiences in Internal Medicine/Family Medicine, Surgery and Pediatrics; more exposure to faculty mentors; ambulatory experience in Women’s Health and Psychiatry; opportunity to see more “realistic” practice environments; opportunity to sample more “electives” earlier in medical training; and flexibility in timing of examinations/evaluations.