University of Kentucky (College of Medicine)

FIRST YEAR COURSES : * Human Structure: Anatomy - The course consists of lecture, small group, laboratory, and palpation exercises that provide a basic understanding of anatomical principles, organization and development. Anatomical structures are introduced as a basis for future functional correlates and principles are taught via laboratory discussions, prosections, dissections, films and skeletal materials. * Human Structure: Histology - The organization of cells, tissues and organs is presented in lectures and in the laboratory through the study of in vivo materials, histological sections and electron microscopic illustrations with focus on the correlation of structure and function. Small group discussions on select topics supplement full classroom work. * Patient Centered Medicine - Patient Centered Medicine provides students with opportunities to develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to practice patient-centered and evidenced-based care in today�s healthcare environment. This course includes a wide range of learning opportunities such as lectures, panel discussions, case presentations, small group discussions, and practice with simulated patients, workshops, patient contact, mentoring, and self-directed exercises. Medical professionalism is a major thread throughout the course; and as such, it is a significant component of student assessment and evaluation. Students learn the foundational knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to effectively and compassionately become physician professionals, by emphasizing the model of patient-centered clinical medicine, which includes: 1. Exploring both the disease and the illness experience 2. Understanding the whole person 3. Finding a common ground 4. Incorporating prevention and health promotion 5. Enhancing the patient-doctor relationship 6. Quality of care * Physicians, Patients, and Society I - This course is taught in problem-based learning sessions with a small group of students and a faculty tutor. Focusing on biopsychosocial, ethical, economic, and other factors involved in human illness, this course helps students gain insight into the medical cases and situations they will encounter throughout their careers. * Cellular Structure and Function - These courses focus on the basics of human biochemistry and genetics. The biochemistry and genetic inheritance involved in a variety of human diseases is studied. For example, glycogen metabolism and its disorders, the genetics of those disorders, and clinical examples of glycogen storage diseases are studied in an integrated fashion. Clinical correlation sessions allow students to learn from physicians treating these illnesses in practice and from the patients and families who experience these illnesses. * Neurosciences - This interdisciplinary course, including neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neurophysiology, neurology, ophthalmology, neurosurgery, etc., describes how the nervous system functions in health and disease. Problem-based and clinical correlation sessions, as well as computer-assisted learning, are used. * Human Function - This course provides the basics of human physiology. Clinical correlations are used to demonstrate applications in medical practice. SECOND YEAR COURSES : * Introduction to Medical Profession II - Advanced practice and learning based on the foundation built in Patient Centered Medicine. * Patients, Physicians and Society II - Continuation of first-year course. * Immunity, Infection, and Disease - This integrated study of immunity, inflammation, and infectious agents uses a variety of teaching methods including lectures, laboratories, problem-based sessions, and other clinical correlation sessions to help demonstrate applications of knowledge to medical practice. * Mechanisms of Disease and Treatment Courses - The parallel study of human pathology, pharmacology, and psychiatry allows considerable integration of drug therapy as it relates to the specific pathology of organs or organ systems. For example, the drugs used to treat cardiac disease and the pathologic conditions of the heart are studied simultaneously. This course emphasizes didactic sessions, small-group learning, and team teaching by faculty members. THIRD YEAR The third-year curriculum provides the student with broad exposure to the major medical disciplines. The year balances the need for adequate exposure to and involvement with patient care with the time needed for study and assimilation of information. The clinical casework integrates related medical disciplines so that students can appreciate the broad medical and social problems that many patients encounter. Student learning occurs in hospital facilities and at ambulatory settings. COURSES : * Primary Care - This ambulatory-based rotation consists of four weeks each of family practice, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics. It is an integrated, team-taught course involving exposure to a variety of practice settings with an emphasis on problem-based learning and the use of the computer for literature searching and information storage. Four weeks of the rotation are spent at one of the Area Health Education Centers in rural Kentucky. * Medical and Surgical Care - This rotation integrates medical and surgical patient care and clinical teaching. For 16 weeks, students alternate four-week rotations in internal medicine and surgery. All students use the problem-based learning method to investigate a set of clinical cases, allowing discussion by and insights from surgeons and internists. * Clinical Neurosciences - This is an eight-week rotation of neurology and psychiatry. * Women's, Maternal, and Child Health - This 12-week rotation allows students to participate in the care of women and children; to assist with prenatal care, birth and follow-up of mothers and infants; and to focus on the family unit. This clerkship offers the opportunity to care for women and children in both ambulatory and hospital settings. An emphasis on preventive care and issues affecting mothers and children includes child and spouse abuse, working mothers and day-care, mother-child bonding, nutrition for women and children, etc. * Elective - An elective period at the end of the third year allows interested students to experience a specialty about which they wish to learn more, to spend an extra research period, or to take a vacation. * Clinical Performance Exam - All students successfully complete a multi-station clinical performance evaluation (CPX) before promotion to fourth-year. FOURTH YEAR The fourth year of study is designed to allow students to further develop and demonstrate their clinical skills on the required acting internships. Students complete two four-week acting internships, one in a medical discipline and one in a surgical discipline. Students also complete a required four-week rotation in Emergency Medicine and 12 weeks of elective rotations at the University of Kentucky or at another approved site. COURSES : * Emergency Medicine - This course allows all students to gain further experience in caring for patients with emergencies, trauma, and other life threatening situations. They gain clinical experiences in university-based and community-based emergency rooms. * Advanced Clinical Pharmacology and Anesthesiology - This course integrates basic and clinical sciences in a required fourth-year rotation. Students review clinical pharmacology and observe a variety of drug treatments in the operating room and pain clinics. Students also receive small-group critical care practice using the Human Patient Simulator. * Dean's Colloquium - This capstone course is held one week before Senior Week and graduation and focuses on interprofessional relationships, medical jurisprudence, health care systems, and issues of managed care. EXTRAMURAL CLERKSHIPS Extramural clerkships provide opportunities for UK medical students to obtain clinical experience at other schools. During the fourth year, students select rotations from a variety of available selectives and electives. Students, in close collaboration with appropriate faculty advisers, tailor their fourth year to their abilities, needs, interests, and future goals. Students with strong past academic performance may use this opportunity to spend several months at other institutions in the United States or abroad. Students pay any related costs for this experience but are provided with College of Medicine malpractice coverage. As with all fourth-year rotations, extramural rotations must be approved by the Student Progress and Promotions Committee. POST-SOPHOMORE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM IN PATHOLOGY The Post-Sophomore Fellowship Program in Pathology offers selected students an unusual educational opportunity in which they can consolidate and correlate the information gathered during the fi rst two years of medical school and can learn to apply this information to the study and understanding of human disease. The fellows function as fi rst-year pathology residents, under the close supervision of the departmental faculty. The 12-month fellowship includes four months on the autopsy service, four months of surgical pathology, and four months of elective time that can be devoted to cytopathology, neuropathology, electron microscopy, cytogenetics, or any of the divisions of laboratory medicine. Elective time can also be spent on a research project. Fellows attend and participate actively in all departmental and interdepartmental conferences, and they gain experience in organizing and presenting their case material to these audiences. They also participate as instructors in the pathology course for second-year medical students.

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School name: University of Kentucky (College of Medicine)
Address: MN150 Chandler Medical Center
Zip & city: KY 40536-0298 Lexington
Phone: 859-323-6582
Web: http://www.mc.uky.edu/medicine

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