MD Degree Program

Teaching Opportunities

Opportunities to participate in Medical School curriculum

Please be aware that medical school accreditation standards prohibit faculty who have or are seeing students as patients from participating in their evaluation or promotion decisions, excluding exceptional circumstances. Should this apply to you, you must recuse yourself from that student’s evaluation/promotion process. This standard may be found in the Standards documents on the LCME website, lcme.org.

Clinical Foundations
The Clinical Foundations thread in the first and second year of the curriculum consists of three components which focus on imparting the clinical knowledge, skills and attitudes of being a physician.

Practice of Medicine (POM)

During the POM sessions, students will be exposed to material that is truly foundational to the practice of clinical medicine. Topics covered will include: professionalism, ethics, patient-physician relationship and communication skills, medical interviewing and the clinical exam, clinical reasoning, biopsychosocial-spiritual context, and systems based practice. The co-Directors of each POM group will be assigned to the same small group throughout the academic year and are responsible for facilitating the assigned session of the day. For more information about becoming a POM facilitator, please contact Kara Ayala.

Problem-Based Learning (PBL)

During the PBL sessions, students will explore content from both the Health and Human Disease ("biomedical science") and Clinical Foundations ("doctoring") courses. The cases serve as a vehicle to explore and understand a range of topics. The faculty tutor for each PBL will be responsible for facilitating the assigned case of the week. For more information about becoming a PBL facilitator, please contact Kara Ayala.

Ambulatory Care Apprenticeship (ACA)

The goal of the ACA is to offer our 1st and 2nd year students the opportunity to work closely with community-based continuity care physician-preceptors and to practice their history and physical examination skills in the real world settings of your practices. For more information about becoming an ACA preceptor, please contact Felipe "Eddie" Zatarain.