First year
1st Semester: 21 credits
- Gross Anatomy (huge course with combined lectures and lots of lab time)
- Molecular Medicine (Micro, Biochem, Genetics, etc)
- Osteopathic Principles and Practice (OPP)
- Primary Clinical Skills (PCS) - the clinical side of medicine, OSCES, Dr-patient interaction.
- Foundations of Modern Healthcare (FMH) - (biostats, vaccinations, legal issues)
All the courses in 1st semester run the full 19 weeks.
2nd Semester: 23 credits
You are now entering the "blocks". With the exception of OPP and PCS, which run semester long, you'll do one block and then start the next.
- Neuroanatomy - If you made it this far, don't ease up just yet. A massive 9 week course
- Heme/Lymph - blood and disease
- Musculoskeletal - something of a breather after the 1st two blocks
- Derm - pretty much a cakewalk after you get through the other courses
- OPP
- PCS
2nd year
1st semester: 19 credits
- Cardiovascular - As long and draining as Neuro, but more fun
- Pulmunary - not so exciting, not so bad
- Renal - haven't had it yet, but hear it is expectedly tough.
- PCS
- OPP
2nd Semester - cannot comment on. Will finish with roughly ~6 weeks to mid June (Boards)
- Endocrinology
- Reproductive
- Gastro
- OPP
- PCS
- FMH
OPP, PCS and FMH are all two credit courses. The bulk of our time is spent in the blocks.
I should mention that I have been impressed by the schools attentiveness for improvement - as you know they are in their 3rd year. our coursework has changed when they saw room for improvement, and the 2019 class has also been adjusted for, to give the best method of teaching possible.