Program Highlights

Mentoring groups during all four years of medical school
  • Students will meet by class year with their three Mentoring Group leaders for 1 ½ hours every two months.  Students will have the opportunity to reflect on experiences in and out of medical school and consider topics in medicine from a primary care perspective in a supportive community.  Dinner is served. 
Earlier clinical exposure to patients in outpatient primary care practices during the first and second years of medical school
  • Learn from patients about their experiences of health and illness and of navigating the health care system.
  • Act as a patient advocate and coach.
A summer experience focused on primary care, between the first and second years of medical school
  • Participate in primary care research or community engagement.
A core clerkship year focused on primary care
  • Opportunity to rotate at sites aligned with primary care and the Pathways Program’s values.
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.
A longitudinal outpatient externship in primary care, during the final year and a half of medical school
  • Students experience the kind of continuity with patients and physician mentors that is uncommon for most medical students.
  • Hone clinical skills.
Work with one of the Pathway Co-Directors as an advisor
  • All students in the Pathway are assigned to one of the three directors, Drs. Kogan, Betancourt, or Nathanson, to serve as their Pathway Advisor during their time in the Pathway.
Build community and gather socially with medical student colleagues and faculty