MD Admissions

Module 2: Integrative Systems and Disease

January, Year 1 — December, Year 2, morning sessions​

• Curriculum designed in blocks to integrate basic science and clinical medicine concepts related to an organ system.
  Structure incorporate:
   
  • Normal development
  • Normal processes
  • Abnormal processes
  • Therapeutics and disease management
  • Epidemiology and evidence-based medicine
  • Prevention and nutrition
     
• Anatomy emphasizes clinical correlations for organ systems taught by clinical faculty
• Differential diagnosis and therapeutics for each organ system
• Learning takes place in small group sessions and team activities
• Three afternoons unscheduled per week
• Elective seminars are offered in global health, community services, medical Spanish, and bioethics
• Monthly career seminars with faculty and advisors to help students explore various career opportunities
• Grading in Pass/Fail

Module 3: Technology and Practice of Medicine

August, Year 1 — December, Year 2, afternoon sessions, two days per week

• Development of clinical and management skills necessary for working with and evaluating patients:

  • Clinical decision making
  • Taking histories and performing physical exams
  • Understanding system-based practice and health care systems
  • Developing differential diagnosis
  • Establishing relationships with patients across all cultures and genders
     
• Learning experiences occur in hospitals, out patient practices and community sites, seminars, workshops, case discussions, and standardized patients
• Assigned to chronically ill patients through the LEAPP program to learn the effects of disease on family and quality-of-life issues
• Clinical skills assessment utilizes standardized patients
• Grading is Pass/Fail