Phoenix Track: Snapshot
The Phoenix campus matriculated 24 students in August of 2007 and will matriculate 48 in August of 2008.
The Phoenix track is organized into seven system-oriented blocks taught in Year 1 and Year 2 that present core elements utilizing case-based instruction, team learning and interactive lecture techniques. Woven through these blocks are experiences and content related to Biomedical Informatics, Personalized Medicine and the required Scholarly Project.
The required Scholarly Project provides medical students with faculty-mentored scholarly experiences and structured activities in either:
- Biomedical Informatics
- Medical Humanities & Ethics
- Molecular Medicine
- Public Health, Prevention, Population Health and Policy (P4)
Several courses are synchronized with block content and stress the connections between these key areas. They include:
- Capstones (one week experiences after each major block which focus on clinical applications of the block)
- Learning Community (comprising the entire class of 24 students and focused on key topics related to the Scholarly Project component)
- Doctoring (to teach history-taking, physical examination, presentation and clinical reasoning skills)
- Longitudinal Clinical Experience (students follow a panel of patients in a primary care setting during Year 1 and Year 2)
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