Teaching and Learning

Curriculum

We collaborate with faculty, staff and students to provide a vital, dynamic curriculum mindful of the needs of a changing society. We support the curriculum through the design, implementation and evaluation of course components, and the assessment of student learning.

Learning Communities

We designed our Learning Communities to facilitate student-to-student and faculty-to-student support and education, leadership development, and service learning activities.

Assessing Clinical Skills

We in the Performance-Based Assessment program test students' clinical and interpersonal skills by placing them in realistic patient scenarios with specially-trained actors.

Research Distinction Track

Our goal for the Research Distinction Track is to encourage students to participate in research in a meaningful and substantial way. This exposure to training in scientific thinking should be an experience that will enrich their medical training.

Teaching Distinction Track

Our objectives for the Teaching Distinction Track are to encourage, equip and recognize medical students as effective educators. Preparing students for involvement in medical education and community outreach is designed to enrich their contribution and experiences in medicine.

Service Distinction Track

Our goal for the Service Distinction Track is to encourage, support, and recognize medical students who work extensively with medically underserved, marginalized, and rural populations during their medical school careers.

Standing Education Committees

Our standing committees provide governance of admissions, the medical curriculum, student activities, and students' academic performance.

Global Opportunities

We foster learning and service opportunities to underserved patients around the world. In a rapidly changing world of health care delivery, patients, care givers, and administrators realize that much is to be gained by learning to better serve our diverse community of patients both within and outside of the US.

Community Health Outreach

Our Community Health Outreach (CHO) program is a student-organized and directed elective class for first and second year medical students who want to learn about the issues faced by medically underserved populations in the community.

Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
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