Medical students complete an 8-week rotation during their third year. Carefully supervised, this experience provides students with the opportunity to practice nonhospital-based outpatient medicine as well as inpatient medicine. The goal of the program is to ensure the student physician is exposed to more common disorders than encountered in an ambulatory care setting. Students are required, under the supervision of a faculty member of the department, to utilize and apply osteopathic concepts in taking a history and physical, perform appropriate procedures, develop a differential diagnosis, formulate a treatment regimen, and identify a health promotion program that includes techniques to bring about changes in the patient's lifestyle.