The UConn School of Medicine is launching a new curriculum for the newly arrived class of 2020 to reflect rapid changes in health care, according to report in UConn Today.
The new four-year program is called MDelta, “Making a Difference in Education, Learning, and Teaching Across the Curriculum.” It has three stages: exploration, clinical immersion and transformation.
Each student will be assigned to a primary care physician in an outpatient practice at UConn Health to gain clinical care experience and follow the health of patients over three years. They also will be assigned to teams for a long-term hospital rotation in Hartford, seeing a diverse population.
Students will gain inpatient and outpatient experiences, from internal medicine to surgery, to prepare them for their sub-internship, critical care and emergency medicine rotations, and their transition to a residency “bootcamp” course, UConn Today said.
The goal of the new curriculum is to produce doctors, innovators and scientists of the future who have outstanding skills in clinical care, research and scholarship, UConn said.
The new curriculum also centers around individual and team-based learning at every turn. Students will rely daily on their in-depth REALM (Remote Active Learning Materials) to prepare for their team-based learning experiences, patient case studies and clinical skills training. The online materials include reading assignments, online videos, games, case studies, and interactive educational tools.
Students will also become skilled on the use of the electronic medical records.
The class of 2020 includes 100 medical and 49 dental students, the largest ever.
