Medical Education - University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Office of Medical Education Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Visiting Students

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.

Guided by interrelated overall institutional and specific curricular goals and objectives, course and clerkship directors use an integrated curricular approach and a variety of teaching modalities such as lab, small group discussion, team-based learning, and lectures to teach students the scientific and humanistic principles of medicine including the application of those principles to medical practice.

The major focus of Year 1 is on the normal structure, function, and development of the human body, while Year 2 emphasizes the basis and mechanisms of human disease. In both years 1 and 2 students learn and practice medical interviewing and physical examination skills and are introduced to humanistic aspects of practicing medicine (e.g., ethics, cultural competency, death, dying, and grieving) in the Clinical Foundations of Medicine course.

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 150 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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