The School of Medicine will introduce a new, Integrated Curriculum beginning with the class entering in fall 2005. It will be based upon body and organ systems and will provide integration among basic science disciplines and between basic science and clinical disciplines. The greatest changes will be seen in Years 1 and 2. Years 3 and 4 will continue to provide specialty-based clerkships, with enhanced emphasis on integration with the basic sciences, evidence-based medicine and professionalism. We believe that an integrated curriculum more closely reflects the way in which students will be expected to identify and address clinical problems in both their educational and professional careers. It will penetrate the somewhat artificial barriers inherent in basic science discipline-based courses and demonstrate the close linkage between the basic sciences and clinical medicine, inculcating into students those fundamental skills that will provide an excellent foundation for their careers in medicine. More...