Modules 2 & 3
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 is Pass/Fail
Module 3: Technology and Practice of Medicine
August, Year 1 — December, Year 2, afternoon sessions, two days per week
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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