- The School of Medicine is to provide cutting-edge resources and education to their students so they may grow into innovative and compassionate physicians, focused on providing superior medical care to the global community.
- Required core courses in the School of Medicine include preclerkship and clinical courses.
- The preclerkship curriculum encompasses two broad areas of organization:
- Human Health and Disease, which provides the bulk of the basic knowledge that is critical to develop the best practice of medicine, and
- Clinical Foundations, in which that knowledge is applied to increasingly complex clinical problems, and in which the competencies of medical interviewing, physical examination, clinical reasoning, and medical professionalism are developed.