Curriculum: Schedules
What Each Year Looks Like
Our curriculum is deliberately crafted to provide students with every opportunity to learn to be the best physician possible, including having a life outside of medical school. With constant student feedback, aspects of the curriculum are always changing as new ideas and suggestions are made.
Students enjoy frequent patient contact in the first and second years, and responsibilities increase as they progress through rotations and sub-internships in the third and fourth years. You will have as close an experience to a real internship as possible, including on-call rotations, so that the transition from med school to residency is virtually seamless.
View a snapshot of our current 4-year curriculum.
View a sample week from our students in each year of the med school program:
Michigan Speaks: The Pre-Clinical Years
- Joe on the value of shadowing before your M2 year
- Fausta on classroom size and diversity
- Jenna on the power of patient presentations
- Michael on the value of longitudinal case studies
- Sarah on clinical weeks, standardized patients and electives
- Deirdre on anatomy and the M1 year
- Sarah on first-year quizzes
- Deirdre on complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM)
Michigan Speaks: The Clinical Years
- Ian on how the Michigan curriculum provides more time for career exploration
- Dan on his perspective after 3+ years of med school
- Dan on M4 subinternships
- Dan on a typical day doing a 4th-year radiology elective
- Joe on the emotional impact of the 3rd year rotations
- Malika on student responsibilities and off-site rotations
- Joe on 3rd year testing and grading
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