MD Academic Overview

One of the first schools to adopt an all Problem-Based-Learning curriculum, there are no lectures and students take responsibility for their own learning.  This open- ended nature requires and generates maturity and confidence not seen in traditional curricula. Learning must go well beyond the basic facts in that students are called upon to integrate and demonstrate verbally their basic science knowledge base to explain clinical findings. In addition, students are evaluated in areas related to group participation and interpersonal, problem-solving, information-gathering and evaluation skills. Students interview and examine actual and standardized patients in their first year. The Community Medicine program provides a continuity experience in the clinical aspects of a community-oriented primary care medical practice during the first, second and fourth years. The third year consists of required clinical rotations in internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics-gynecology, family medicine, and psychiatry. The fourth year includes required clerkships in two of three selective in critical care, emergency medicine and/or geriatric medicine.

Preclinical Programs

• Biomedical Problems Program
• Clinical Skills
• Community Medicine
• Medical Ethics
• Community Office Practice Program

Clinical Programs

Year III

• Family Medicine
• Internal Medicine
• Pediatrics
• Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Psychiatry
• Surgery

Year IV

• Fourth Year Requirements
• Selective's
• Electives
• Community Medicine
• Medical Ethics

Catalogs & Handbooks

Office of Academic Affairs

Office of Academic Records