Pre-Clerkship
Year 1 & 2
The Undergraduate Medical Education Program at the Cumming School of Medicine strives to:
- Be an innovative and progressive three-year program that educates its students to become compassionate, competent and well-rounded physicians prepared for supervised practice.
- Provide an environment that fosters collegiality, ethical practice and professionalism among students, faculty and allied health professionals to produce future physicians capable of working cooperatively within a team of health care providers, able to provide comprehensive, socially competent heath care to our socioculturally diverse population with a goal of social accountability to all global citizens.
- Facilitate the acquisition of clinical problem-solving skills through the use of clinical presentations as the foundation of its curriculum, early contact with patients and integration of basic and clinical sciences.
- Prepare students to remain competent throughout their career, being able to appraise new scientific medical information and thoughtfully modify their practice accordingly.
- Maintain an active learning environment by incorporating research opportunities, scheduled independent study time and a balance of traditional and innovative instructional modalities, including, but not limited to: small group learning, problem-based learning, interactive lectures, simulated patient encounters and bedside teaching.
- Communicate clear performance expectations to students through the use of outcome-based objectives assessed in an ongoing fashion with formative and summative evaluations.
- Provide a safe learning environment for students, an environment free of intimidation and harassment.
Years 1 & 2
Class of 2027
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Class of 2026
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