Year Three - MS3

Students work with faculty to design and implement a project from multiple areas to frame clinically relevant questions, develop strategies for answering the questions, analyze their findings, and present their results. 

Gives students an understanding of the spectrum of challenges— from political, to sociological, to biomedical—that limit the provision of health care to the world’s people. Provides students with the skill-set to function effectively in any global healthcare setting, often within resource-limited environments. 

Using cross-disciplinary methods such as those from philosophy, social science, film, literature, art, and law, students examine the meaning and implications of medicine and medical research. Explores the moral, social, and humanistic dimensions of medicine and biomedical science. 

Learn entrepreneurship approaches and how to move a health innovation idea from concept to reality. Design meaningful solutions to the current pressing needs in health care. 

Empowers student physicians to be advocates for justice through instruction in human rights and social determinants of health, mentorship opportunities, and applied advocacy and research experiences. 

Prepares students for engagement and leadership in the field of medical education through training in learning theory, curricular design and delivery, evaluation and assessment, teaching and education, and implementation of novel tools and techniques. 

Provides insights into big data, information management, computational methods of structuring and analyzing biomedical data, and the opportunity to conduct large-scale data analysis along the entire biomedical research pipeline 

Combines didactic, seminar, clinical, and research components with the goal of providing students with skills to function more effectively in any healthcare setting. This quality improvement work involves not only individual patients but also health systems and institutions.