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Our Mission is to provide a
total curriculum experience that expands the minds and opens the
hearts of students to become clinically competent,
patient-centered physicians who are responsive to community
needs through service to elder, rural, minority, and underserved
populations.
Our Vision is to cultivate physicians who are expert learners,
problem solvers and agents of change committed to providing
socially responsible and clinically excellent
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Principles of the Curriculum
The faculty and the Curriculum Committee of the College of Medicine,
in order to assure that our students are provided with a
comprehensive medical education that will enable their development
as knowledgeable, skilled, and compassionate physicians, subscribe
to the following principles of the curriculum.
- The curriculum is student-centered.
• Faculty and instructional methods show respect for the student
• The learning environment is designed to support student needs
• Students are active and critical learners
- The curriculum comprises a context-framed educational plan (in
the context of how the student would use and apply knowledge).
• Case-based learning is used to stimulate learning and promote
application of basic biomedical and behavioral sciences to
clinical sciences
• Clinical presentations with simulated and real patients are used
to stimulate learning
• Curriculum flows from a list of basic clinical presentations
that provide the foundation for exposure to clinical areas
necessary for preparing the undifferentiated medical student for
all possibilities for post graduate training.
- The coursework is integrated within years and across years of
the program.
- The curriculum is based on the following measurable
competencies:
• Professional attitudes and behaviors
• Ethical judgment
• Communication with patients, families and colleagues
• Application of basic biomedical and behavioral sciences to
patient care
• Essential clinical skills
• Problem solving and critical thinking
• Life-long learning skills and management of information
• Awareness of social, cultural, and community context of health,
illness, and care
• Personal awareness
• Skills in improving organizations and systems
- Scholarship and the discovery of new knowledge is encouraged
and facilitated.
• Opportunities for research are provided
• Scholarly activities in basic sciences, clinical sciences and
community medicine are encouraged
- The educational environment is appropriate to the mission of
the medical school, and students are educated in the
biopsychosocial model. Students are provided with experiences in:
• geriatrics
• serving underserved populations
• serving rural populations
• understanding of medicine within the context of different
cultural and social situations
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