Rush University (Rush Medical College)

FIRST AND SECOND YEARS The primary objective of the first year is to provide students with exposure to the vocabulary and the fundamental concepts upon which the clinical sciences are based. The first year is comprised of three quarters of basic science material organized by discipline, that emphasize the structure, function, and behavior of the normal person. The curriculum utilizes a variety of educational formats that include lecture, laboratory, small group discussions and workshops. In addition to the preceptor experience, introduction to interviewing, history taking, and physical examination are offered in a unique series of three courses that continue into the second year. Descriptions for the other courses listed below may be found in the section on courses. FIRST YEAR COURSES : * Histology * Human Anatomy I, II * Biochemistry, Intro, I, II * Fundamentals of Behavior * Behavior in the Life Cycle * Ethics in Medicine I, II * Basic Immunology * Medical Neurobiology * Introduction to the Patient * Interviewing and Communication * Shared Medical Decision Making I, II * Preceptorship I, II, III * Health of the Public I, II * Physiology I, II SECOND YEAR During the second year, students are concerned with the study of the causes and effects of disease and therapeutics. COURSES : * Clinical Immunology * Clinical Pathophysiology I, II, III * Microbiology Concepts I, II * Physical Diagnosis V * Introduction to Clinical Skills I, II * Interviewing and Communication IV * Shared Medical Decision Making IV, V * Preceptorship IV, V, VI * Medical Pharmacology I, II * Pathology I, II, III * Introduction to Psychopathology * Epidemiology/Biostatistics THIRD AND FOURTH YEARS The curricula of the third and fourth years provide students with training in clinical skills, diagnosis, and patient management in a variety of patients care settings. Students must take and pass Step I of the examinations offered by the United States Medical Licensing Examination/National Board of Medical Examiners (USMLE/NBME) before beginning core clerkships. Prior to the start of the third year, students participate in the CRASH Course, a four day intensive orientation to clinical skills to be used during the clerkships. The clinical curriculum includes required third year core clerkships in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics/gynecology, surgery totaling 42 weeks. There is a required four week rotation in neurology that can be taken in the third or fourth years and a required four week senior sub-internship that can be taken in internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, or surgery. A required four week Capstone course in the senior year will readdress basic science concepts in combination with advanced clinical topics. In addition, students will do 18 weeks of elective study in areas of special interest to each student and six weeks of recommended elective requirements. The academic requirements of the third and fourth year total 78 weeks. With few exceptions, the required core clerkships are taken at Rush University Medical Center, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, or another Rush network institution. Students will not be allowed to be considered a senior student until they have successfully completed the basic 42 weeks of required core clerkships. Of the 18 weeks of required student chosen electives, up to ten weeks may be carried out at other LCME or ACGME accredited institutions. Additional elective study may be taken but it will not count toward the degree. Students may take no more than eight weeks of elective rotations in any particular subspecialty area. Students participate in assignment of required core clerkships through a lottery system although the final decision concerning core and elective clerkship rotations rests with the Director of Clinical Curriculum. Additionally, third year students are provided with a clinical skills assessment experience with standardized patients (in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago 's Clinical Performance Center ). This experience is designed to aid in self-evaluation of one's clinical skills (communication and interpersonal skills, attitudes, and procedural skills) and is coordinated by Andem Ekpenyong, M.D. and Toshiko Uchida, M.D.

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School name: Rush University (Rush Medical College)
Address:  600 South Paulina St. 524 AAC
Zip & city: IL 60612 Chicago
Phone: 312-942-6915
Web: http://www.rushu.rush.edu/medcol/

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