FAQ

You need to attend 12 elective hours from the Community Engagement category to get credit for the CE elective. This can be accomplished in 1 of 2 ways.

• First, you can complete all 12 hours from a single portfolio. 

• Second, you can mix and match from the different CE portfolios. This is the Community Engagement - Mix & Match elective option.* 

Both result in successful completion of the CE elective. Sometimes portfolios join forces to do joint events in which hours from those events are eligible for more than one CE portfolio, or the Mix & Match option. Elective officers will let you know if this is the case.

*One exception: You must complete 12 hours of the GHEA elective to be eligible to go on an international clinical elective. Please see the GHEA page and FAQ on this website for more information.

See the Pre-clerkship Electives Catalogue for more information.

Please follow faculty guidance on this topic. For any questions about this process please email the electives coordinator Norma Maloney at electives@ualberta.ca.

Students in years 1 and 2 of medicine must complete a 12-hour pre-clerkship elective. To ensure you get credit for participating in the events of the elective you choose to attend, please submit the Assess.Med form to register your interest at the beginning of the year.

Assess.Med Instructions: 

1. Click on the course ELV MED 517/518 (First Year Elective) or ELV MED 527 (Second Year Elective). 

2. Choose “Evaluations”

3. Open the form titled “Year 1 Elective Form” or “Year 2 Elective Form”

4. Select preceptor: Dr. Katherine Smith (kesmith@ualberta.ca)

5. Choose “Continue” > “Start Evaluation”

6. Fill out Part A: Elective Information as follows:

   1. Title/Department of Elective: Enter one of the following options below:

      1. Global Health Education & Advocacy

      2. Indigenous Health

      3. Sexual & Reproductive Health

      4. Inner City Health

      5. Community Engagement - Mix & Match

   2. Location of Elective: University of Alberta

   3. Date of Elective: Put either the date of the first event or date you are submitting the form.

   4. Total hours: 12 hours

7. Choose “Save for Later”

Choosing “Save for Later” will send the form to your elective preceptor’s inbox (in our case, Dr. Smith), where it will be accepted at the end of the year once you have fulfilled the 12 hours of your elective. 

No. Please only fill it out once at the beginning of the year with 12 hours in the “total hours” line. This is the only time you will need to submit this form all year. Your preceptor will accept the form (and thus accept your completion of the 12-hour elective) at the end of the year once elective events have concluded. 

This is no big deal - just submit another form (using the same exact method) on Assess.Med stating the elective you have decided to complete this year. 

As a courtesy you may contact the coordinators of the elective you originally submitted interest for so they can disregard your evaluation submission. Preceptors have access to attendance lists from all elective events; if you have submitted a form on Assess.Med but don’t end up completing the elective your original form submission simply won’t be accepted.

See answer to #4 above.

See answer to #4 above.