Program Highlights

Mentoring Groups
  • Throughout all four years of medical school
  • Students meet by class year with their three Mentoring Group Leaders for about 1.5 hours every 2 months
  • Students will have the opportunity to reflect on experiences both in and outside of medical school and discuss topics in medicine from a primary care perspective in a supportive community
  • Dinner is served!
Advising and Mentorship
  • All students are assigned to Drs. Kogan, Kurash, or Nathanson to serve as their Pathway Advisor throughout their time in the Pathway
Earlier outpatient primary care clinical exposure
  • During MS1 and MS2 years
  • Experience what it means to be primary care provider and act as a patient advocate
  • Learn from patients about their experiences with health and illness and how they and their PCP help navigate the healthcare system at large
Primary care-focused summer experience​​​​​​​
  • During the summer between MS1 and MS2 years of medical school
  • Participate in primary care research and community engagement
Primary Care-aligned Clerkship experience
  • Opportunity to rotate at clinical sites or tweak clinical rotations to be more aligned with a primary care experience
Frontiers in Health System Science and Primary Care Workshops
  • Learn about foundational elements in health system science, including health care infrastructure and policy, population health, clinical informatics, quality improvement, patient safety, and interdisciplinary teamwork.  
  • Develop advanced primary care skills, such as patient communication, advance care planning, outpatient procedures, and addressing the social determinants of health.
  • Participate in an innovation project where students are on-site in clinics and then develop a proposed solution to an issue in the clinic.
Longitudinal outpatient primary care experience
  • During the second half of MS3 year and all of MS4 year
  • Promotes continuity relationships with patients and physician mentors, an experience that is uncommon to most medical students
  • Hone outpatient primary care skills and learning
Build community and gather socially with medical student colleagues and faculty  
  • Social events with food and fun several times per year
  • Celebrate the MS4 class at graduation!