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Medical Education

The primary educational mission at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (UCCOM) is to provide a stimulating learning environment intended to create the undifferentiated MD who is ready to excel in his or her chosen residency and who will provide excellent patient care.

Using an integrated curricular approach and a variety of teaching modalities such as lab, small group discussion, team-based learning, and lectures, the first two years provide students with the scientific and humanistic principles of medicine including the application of those principles to medical practice.

The major focus of Year 1 is the normal structure, function, and development of the human body.

Year 2 emphasizes the basis and mechanisms of human disease.

During Year 3, students rotate through seven core clerkships including Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Psychiatry, OB/Gyn, Surgery, and Radiology. Students also have the opportunity to begin exploring career options by participating in three specialty clerkships of their choosing. In

Year 4 students’ clinical skills are honed during their Acting Internship and required Neuroscience selective. Students also choose from over 100 elective offerings, some of which are clinical, while others expose the student to the ways in which medicine fits into society.

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