Sample Curriculum and Schedule

Year 1 Sample Week Schedule

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
AM

Lecture: Abdomen History

Lecture: Histology of GI Tract

Lecture: GI Development and Malformations

Lecture: Autonomics of the Abdomen

Lecture: AE/Urinary System

Osteopathic Clinical Skills (OCS) Lab: Lumbar Muscle Energy

Directed Study: Glomerular Filtration and Renal Blood Flow

Directed Study: Urea Cycle

Independent Study

PM

Special President's Hour Presentation

Lecture: AE/GI Histology

Anatomy Lab: Midgut and Hindgut

Application Exercise: Urinary System

Early Clinical Exposure Lab

Anatomy Lab: Retroperitoneum and Kidneys

Osteopathic Clinical Skills (OCS) Lab: Abdomen

Early Clinical Exposure Lab

Student Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) Clinical (Shadowing)

Early Clinical Exposure Lab

Independent Study

Exam

Exam Review

Year 2 Sample Week Schedule

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
AM

TBL (Team Based Learning): Localization of Function - Blood Supply - Stroke Presentation: Find the Lesion

Lecture: Presentation Wrap-up Weakness

Lecture: Presentation Introduction to Chronic Pain, Substance Abuse

Lecture: OMT (Osteopathic Manipulative Technique) for Older Children

Lecture: Anatomy of Back Pain

Lecture: FDA & Drug Trails

Lecture: Drugs Abuse

Lecture: Prep for Lab - Drug Abuse Interviewing

Lecture: Decision Making Capacity

Lecture: Substance Use Disorders

Lecture: Clinical Approach to Opioid; Opiate Abuse

Lecture: Presentation Wrap-up to Chronic Pain, Substance Abuse

Lecture: Special/Opioid Crisis - Panel Discussion

Clinical Evaluation Center: Drug Abuse Interviewing (takes place in standardized patient exam rooms)

Clinical Evaluation Center: Drug Abuse Interviewing Continued (takes place in standardized patient exam rooms)

 

PM

Special President's Hour

Lecture: Chronic Pain

Lecture: Reward - Motivational Pathways

Directed Study: Doc.com - Drug Abuses

 

Lecture: Opioids

Directed Study: CDC Opioid Guidelines

 

OMM (Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine) Student Clinic

Lab Technique Clinical Skills II course

Lecture: Special Physician Health, Wellbeing and the Physicians Health Program

Independent Study

Year 3 & 4 Rotations

Discipline Rotation Length
Family Medicine I 8 Weeks
Internal Medicine I 4 Weeks
Pediatrics 4 Weeks
Psychiatry 4 Weeks
Surgery I 4 Weeks
Dean's Selective 4 Weeks
Women's Health (including OB) 4 Weeks
Emergency Medicine 4 Weeks
Internal Medicine II 4 Weeks
Internal Medicine III 4 Weeks
Internal Medicine IIV 4 Weeks
Surgery II 4 Weeks
Surgery III 4 Weeks
Pediatrics II 4 Weeks
Family Medicine 8 Weeks
Electives 14 Weeks