MD Curriculum Highlights
- Students spend one half-day weekly in a primary care clinical setting throughout the entire curriculum
- A focus on socioeconomic, environmental and other societal factors (social determinants of health) to improve patient outcomes
- Enhanced learning via a hybrid clinical clerkship model that exposes students to various fields of medicine, simultaneously, in hospital and outpatient settings
- Teams consisting of physician faculty, community health workers, and medical, pharmacy and social work students will make regular visits to households facing significant health disparities to address health improvement needs
- Team-based, interactive classroom instruction to keep students engaged