An Innovative Curriculum
- Earlier Clinical Training – Our students enter the clerkship curriculum (Year 3 and Year 4) earlier than students at most other medical schools. This important difference allows our students to gain a greater amount of clinical exposure before they choose their year 4 curriculum and before they begin to focus their interests in the area of medicine they wish to pursue in residency.
- Personalized Active Learning (PAL) block – Our PAL block allows students to select from a broad set of enrichment experiences designed to further explore possible clinical and basic science interests.
- Customizable Scheduling – Many of the curricular components allow the student to customize their specific schedule, such PAL Block, PPD, and 3rd and 4th year Electives.
Curricular Progression
- Foundational Curriculum (Years 1 and 2).
- Clinical Curriculum (Years 3 and 4).
Evidence-based Teaching Methods
- Small group, Case-Based Instruction (CBI).
- Cadaveric dissection laboratories.
- BioPac medical physiology laboratories.
- Patient panels.
- Clinical case mysteries – small group presentations.
- Team-based learning.
- Required Asynchronous Modules.
- Flipped classroom methodologies.