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Most of the controversy surrounds the changes in the number of mandatory clerkships required of third-year students. Under the old curriculum, all students had to take five months of clerkships in surgery and medicine, and could choose from among five other areas to fulfill an added three months of clerkship slots. The new plan increases the number of mandated clerkships from eight to 12, and eliminates any student choice among clerkships...
...school has also eliminated a "concentration" requirement in the fourth year, consisting of an additional four months of clerkships left to the students' choice. Both students and faculty agreed that the requirement had become "dysfunctional," because of logistical problems within some of the topics of concentration. Thus, says Myra B. Ramos, assistant to the dean for academic affairs, the number of total required clerkship months is the same as before, with the major change being that students are now told which 12 clerkships they must take...
...school should have encouraged people to think more about their medical education for themselves," says Peter Slavin, a second-year student. He argues that the school should have effected the changes through its advising system--allowing the variations in clerkship selection "that have to be expected with such a diverse class...
...wage earners. But the judges point to figures showing that the average 50-year-old lawyer working for a medium-size or large private firm makes $150,000. Even a junior partner in such firms, who may be no more than eight years beyond a clerkship for a federal judge, can equal or top the judge's earnings...
...perhaps one in four survive to become partners six years later. The rest spin off to smaller firms, corporate jobs, Government work or other fields. The range of possible career paths is staggering. With the law explosion, a new member of the bar can elect to try a judicial clerkship, criminal law, tax practice, public interest work, corporate law, legal aid or work in public defenders' offices, a prosecutorial job at the state or federal level, Government practice in, say, a regulatory agency, or any number of others...