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title: How to Honor Your IM Rotation | Free Sketchy Webinar
description: Learn what earns honors on IM from a former clerkship director and program director, then compete in a live case challenge. Free, Nov 5 at 7pm ET.
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FREE LIVE WEBINAR
# How to Honor Your IM Rotation:
## Real Advice + Live Case Challenge
When
Thursday, November 5 @ 4pm PT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET
**Can't make it live?** Register anyway. We'll send the recording straight to your inbox.
You're on rounds. Your attending turns to you and asks what you think is going on. What you say next shapes your evaluation more than you'd expect.
This webinar is a hands-on, interactive session designed to give you the edge on your IM rotations. In it, Dr. Seth Politano will show you **what actually earns honors on IM**. Then you'll put it to work in a live case challenge against other students.
What to expect
\+ **Rotation Advice:** what IM expects, what earns honors, and how to go from reporting findings to interpreting them, with a step-by-step way to build and present your differential.
\+ **Case Challenge:** Split into teams and work together to solve a high-yield patient case. Winning team gets a Sketchy t-shirt!\*
\+ **Case Debrief:** See how the case unfolds from first vitals to final diagnosis, plus high-yield board pearls.
\+ **Q&A:** rotation tips, shelf prep, career questions. Bring whatever's stressing you out.
Who it's for
**Preclinical/didactic students** heading into rotations who want to know what IM expects before day one.
**Clinical students** on IM now or starting soon who want to present with confidence and go for honors.
**PA and NP students** are welcome too. The clinical reasoning carries into any clinical rotation.
You're on rounds. Your attending turns to you and asks what you think is going on. What you say next shapes your evaluation more than you'd expect.
This webinar is a hands-on, interactive session designed to give you the edge on your IM rotations. In it, Dr. Seth Politano will show you **what actually earns honors on IM**. Then you'll put it to work in a live case challenge against other students.
What to expect
\+ **Rotation Advice:** what IM expects, what earns honors, and how to go from reporting findings to interpreting them, with a step-by-step way to build and present your differential.
\+ **Case Challenge:** Split into teams and work together to solve a high-yield patient case. Winning team gets a Sketchy t-shirt!\*
\+ **Case Debrief:** See how the case unfolds from first vitals to final diagnosis, plus high-yield board pearls.
\+ **Q&A:** rotation tips, shelf prep, career questions. Bring whatever's stressing you out.
Who it's for
**Preclinical/didactic students** heading into rotations who want to know what IM expects before day one.
**Clinical students** on IM now or starting soon who want to present with confidence and go for honors.
**PA and NP students** are welcome too. The clinical reasoning carries into any clinical rotation.
### How the case challenge works
1\. **Join a breakout room** with other students.
2\. **Pick a team leader** to share their screen and drive the case.
3\. **Score points together.** You'll have 20 minutes to work the case. Every key finding you spot and every quiz question you get right is worth 1 point.
4\. **Most points wins.** We'll tally points after the webinar and announce the winning team by email the following day.
##### Case Challenge Prize
The team with the most points wins, and everyone on it gets a **Sketchy t-shirt**.
*\*No purchase necessary. Open to US residents only. Awarded to members of the winning breakout team. Winning team announced by email on November 6, 2026.*
[Save my spot](https://info.sketchy.com/how-to-honor-your-im-rotation-case-challenge-nov-2026#register)
## Meet your speakers
Seth Politano, DO, FACP
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of Clinical Medicine & Reasoning, Western U/COMP
Dr. Politano has served as chief resident, IM clerkship director, associate program director, and founding IM program director. He's earning a master's in medical education at Oxford, focused on how clinical reasoning is taught and assessed. He also helped build Sketchy's Internal Medicine course and was recently on Jeopardy!
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Ashley Tran, MD
Senior Content Strategist, Sketchy
Ashley completed her MD at Rutgers NJMS and started her general surgery residency in Detroit before joining Sketchy.
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