About the Medical Curriculum

A major curricular revision was initiated in 1998. This revision instituted the Essentials of Clinical Medicine sequence that runs throughout the first three years of the curriculum introducing students to patient care within the first semester of the educational program.

The Basic Science curriculum was reorganized into organ system blocks throughout the first two years of medical school. Small group case-based exercises were introduced into all blocks.

In addition to clerkships in medicine, neurology, pediatrics, psychiatry, women's health, primary care, and surgery, two-week clerkships in anesthesia and emergency medicine as well as a four-week geriatric clerkship were added.

A fourth year course was introduced, Emerging Concepts in Medicine, to expose students to translational research that will affect their future practice of medicine.