Program Structure
Key elements of the program
Basic science foundation courses underpin both the Ph.D. and M.D. degrees. These include anatomy, microanatomy, biochemistry, microbiology, neuroscience, pathology, and pharmacology. CFMP can serve as a bridge between course work or dissertation research and the clinical clerkships. The bedrock of clinical education is a one-year sequence of clinical clerkships, during which a student obtains six to eight weeks of intensive training in internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, and pediatrics. In addition, significant hands-on experience is provided by an eight-week internship. To complete the clinical training, each student selects subspecialty electives and an acting internship, in consultation with the M.D. advisor, and designs the six-month special project of postdoctoral research or clinical medicine.
For more information about the clinical curriculum, please visit the College of Medicine's Medical Education Homepage.