University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (College of Medicine)

FIRST AND SECOND YEARS During the first two years, the student is primarily concerned with the basic biomedical sciences. To give these studies more meaning, provision is made for direct contact of students with patients from the onset of the freshman year. An exciting development in the College of Medicine�s curriculum for the first two years was put into place for the fall of 2005. The sophomore curriculum was totally integrated in a systems-based approach so that all courses run the entire length of the year and the material taught in them is linked together. The Curriculum Committee is now looking at a similar configuration for the freshman year. FIRST YEAR COURSES : * Gross Anatomy * Physiology * Microanatomy * Neuroscience * Biochemistry * Cell Biology * Introduction to Clinical Medicine I SECOND YEAR COURSES : * Microbiology * Behavioral Sciences * Immunology * Medical Ethics * Parasitology * Intro to Clinical Medicine 2 * Pharmacology * Genetics * Pathophysiology THIRD YEAR The junior year courses (clerkships) provide training in most of the basic problems with which patients present themselves. Students learn to apply scientific principles to the examination, diagnosis and treatment of human disease. Seminars, conferences and clinical rounds with members of the teaching staff are important in giving the student a rounded perspective of human illness. COURSES : * Medicine * Psychiatry * Surgery * Pediatrics * Obstetrics/ Gynecology * Surgical Sub-Specialties * Geriatrics * Family Medicine FOURTH YEAR The senior year program is mostly elective in order to provide each student the opportunity to choose a program best suited to his or her individual needs. Each department makes available to the student a spectrum of general and special programs from which the student selects a minimum of 36 weeks of study, with the advice and approval of a Faculty Advisor. Research may be taken as an elective. Off-campus studies (local, elsewhere in the United States and in other countries) may be elected with the prior approval of the Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Elective work need not be confined to the senior year, but may be carried out for no credit whenever possible during prior academic years with the consent of the Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. The degree, Doctor of Medicine, is conferred upon graduating seniors.

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School name: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (College of Medicine)
Address: 4301 W. Markham
Zip & city: AR 72205 Little Rock
Phone: 501-686-5354
Web: http://www.uams.edu/COM

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