Medicine 1
Ohio State is unique by offering the choice of two curricular pathways designed to fit your learning style during your first two years of medical school. Your first patient contact occurs in your first year as well.
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Ohio State educators are constantly looking for innovative ways to help you become the best physician you can be -- a physician ready for the clinical side of medicine, but also with an understanding of the basic ethical, policy, cultural, business and research issues involved in medicine today. |
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All students regardless of pathway complete GROSS ANATOMY in the first 10 weeks of the program. Groups of 6 students perform a full body dissection in this course. You will return to the anatomy lab to hone your skills and improve your techniques as your progress through the curriculum.
The INTEGRATED PATHWAY, broken down into body systems-oriented content, fuses the basic and clinical sciences. This pre-clinical curriculum combines methods of student-centered active learning, small group case-based discussion, and lectures. Taught in “blocks,” each subject area includes normal histology and physiology, as well as pathophysiology, pathology, and pharmacology. The first year blocks cover the cell, host defense, neural and interdisciplinary studies.
The INDEPENDENT STUDY PATHWAY students utilize highly structured objectives, resource guides, web and computer-based materials to learn on their own. The ISP curriculum is organized into interdisciplinary study units called modules, arranged by organ systems, focusing on Normal Human (healthy) the first year.
CLINICAL ASSESSMENT AND PROBLEM SOLVING (CAPS I) content will help you develop skills in medical history taking, physical examination and communication with standardized, undifferentiated patients. Cases involve behavioral medicine topics found in clinical settings such as violence, human development, diversity, ethics, sexuality, addiction, pain, palliative medicine, integrative medicine, health care organization and finance.
| EARLY CLINICAL EXPOSURE begins in your first year working with a primary care physician where you will begin to learn how to evaluate patients. Your experiences in the patient care world is a gradual process and increases as you you develop history taking, interviewing, physical exam, and psycho-social skills. Ohio State’s Clinical Skills Education & Assessment Center allows you to build your clinical proficiency in a low-pressure setting that includes individuals trained to portray patient cases. |
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Medicine 2
You continue in your curricular pathway and work through the second year curriculum.
The INTEGRATED PATHWAY continues with Neuroscience 2, followed by systems including opthalmology, cardio/pulmonary/renal block, gastroenterology block, endocrinology block, reproduction/development/geriatrics block, and musculoskeletal/skin block. These blocks cover normal histology and physiology, pathophysiology, pathology, and pharmacology.
The INDEPENDENT STUDY PATHWAY students organ system modules that focus on pathophysiology.
CLINICAL ASSESSMENT AND PROBLEM SOLVING 2 (CAPS) emphasizes relationship centered communication with other physicians and other health care providers. You will continue to expand your skills to demonstrate advanced techniques in medical history taking, physical exam skills and communication. Small group discussions and cases (with about 12 students) involves the chronic disease model and complex issues in behavioral medicine and health care delivery.
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CLINICAL EXPOSURE continues with increasing responsibilities during the second year.
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STEP 1 is required to move into the Med 3 year. IP students have about one month to prepare for Step 1 of the Boards. The amount of time ISP students have to prepare depends on when the last module is completed.
INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL MEDICINE (ICM) occurs in June before you move into your third year. ICM is a one week introducation to the clinical setting and expectations in the patient care environment.
To see a visual representation/map of the overall Med 1- 4 curriculum, please click on the link below.
Med1-4 Curriculum Map