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Curriculum Innovations

PERSONAL ENHANCEMENTS

DUAL DEGREES

The flexibility of the curriculum allows students to earn dual degrees through any school at the University of Pennsylvania. The degrees offered through the Perelman School of Medicine are:

• MD-Ph.D.
  
• MD-Master’s
  • MBA-Master of Business Administration
    
  • MBE-Master of Bioethics
    
  • MSCE-Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology
    
  • MTR-Master of Science in Translational Research
    
  • MPH-Master of Public Health
  • MSHP-Master of Science in Health Policy Research

CERTIFICATES

The School offers specialized program concentrations leading to certificates in five areas:

• Global Health
  
• Women’s Health
  
• Community Health
  
• Clinical Neuroscience
  
• Aging

The certificates can be completed within the four year program.

FIFTH-YEAR FELLOWSHIPS

For students wanting to spend additional time delving into a subject, the school offers a “Year-Out” option with a wide range of funding available, including:

• Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship
  
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  
• Anatomic Pathology Fellowship at Penn
  
• Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Orthopaedics Clinical Research
  
• Focus on Health and Leadership for Women Fellowship

EDUCATIONAL TRAINING ENHANCEMENTS

LEADERSHIP TRAINING

The Perelman School of Medicine and Wharton collaborated on designing a new model for medical education – small-group teams. Used throughout the curriculum, the teams teach students how to work effectively in a team and the importance to physicians of basic team skills.

SIMULATIONS

The Perelman School of Medicine offers students and faculty two facilities totaling 23,000 square feet to learn and hone basic and clinical skills through:

• Computer mannequins
  
• Standardized patients
  
• Six high-fidelity simulation rooms
  
• Advanced task training
  
• BLS and ALS certification
  

76ers SURGICAL AMPHITHEATER

A high-tech amphitheater at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania that enhances teaching in the surgical clerkship. In this setting students link to the hospital surgical suites and experience live interactive surgery.

VIRTUAL CURRICULUM

The School stands in the forefront of computer resources, most available in formats compatible with iPods and MP3’s, offering:

• High-quality, real-time video of all medical school lectures
  
• Slides from lectures
  
• Case studies
  
• Review sessions
  
• Links to Penn’s biomedical library and health system and to the National Library of Medicine
  

 

Health Care Delivery in non-traditional programs

GLOBAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Penn offers a non-traditional hands-on approach to global and community health service.

• Field experience in low-income areas, working closely with residents, patients and health-care workers
  
• International partnerships in Botswana, Guatemala, India, and the Dominican Republic
  
• Research and clinical experiences from 1 month to a year in every region of the world
  
• "Bridging the Gaps" program at clinics in disadvantaged areas of Philadelphia
  

LEAPP

(Longitudinal Experience to Appreciate the Patient's Perspective) This unique program exposes students to the biopsychosocial module of disease by pairing them with chronically ill patients throughout Module 3.

 

 

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