Years 1-4
Curriculum > Years 1-4
Your remarkable journey toward becoming a physician will look like this:
In the first year at Ohio State, you'll study gross anatomy, embryology and histology as part of a six-member student team that you will share the first 14 weeks of medical school with. The seeds of working together toward mutual success are planted during this time. You’ll develop critical-analysis and problem-solving skills that put you on the path to being a lifelong learner.
Now you join one of the two curricular pathways to learn about the body systems. Also, the Patient-Centered Medicine and Physician Development courses take place weekly, combining small group role-playing settings, lectures, and experiences with senior citizens and physicians in the community. This is when you lay the building blocks of how to do a thorough patient interview.
You'll continue in your selected pathway for the second year of medical education, further strengthening your clinical interviewing skills, learning how to do a comprehensive physical examination, and building your diagnostic abilities. Working with real and standardized patients, you'll gain an appreciation for the pathophysiology of disease.
As you move full-time into the third-year setting of clinical training, your rotations will start off with a two-week clerkship, Introduction to Clinical Medicine (ICM). You will spend the next 12 months in a range of experiences, including ambulatory primary care medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, internal medicine, psychiatry, neurology, pediatrics, and surgery.
Your fourth year of medical school features four Differentiation of Care Selectives covering the undifferentiated patient, chronic care, sub-internship in internal medicine, and a sub-internship in surgical care. You will have great flexibility your fourth year, with four months of elective rotations and three months of vacation.