4 Year MD

Unleash Your Medical Potential: Begin Your Path to Excellence with Our 4-Year MD Program

The 4-Year MD program can be completed in 3 years and 4 months. Admission into the 4-year program requires a Bachelor Degree or completion of at least two years of post secondary education, which must include successful completion of premedical admission requirements such as:

Biology – 90 semester hours
Chemistry – 90 semester hours
Physics – 90 semester hours
and one year of Mathematics or Calculus, English and Humanities or Liberal Arts.

The 4-year MD degree program comprises 5 semesters of instruction in Basic Medical Sciences in St Vincent followed by 72 weeks of clinical clerkships.

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Course Curriculum

MD 1

GROSS ANATOMY
HISTOLOGY AND CELL BIOLOGY
MEDICAL EMBRYOLOGY
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
PATIENT-DOCTOR RELATIONSHIP I
RESEARCH PROJECT

MD 2

BIOCHEMISTRY
PHYSIOLOGY
GENETICS
NEUROSCIENCE
PATIENT-DOCTOR RELATIONSHIP II
RESEARCH PROJECT

MD 3

MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY
GENERAL PATHOLOGY (PATHOLOGY I)
MEDICAL ETHICS
PATIENT-DOCTOR RELATIONSHIP III
RESEARCH PROJECT

MD 4

SYSTEMIC PATHOLOGY (PATHOLOGY II)
PHARMACOLOGY
PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS
RESEARCH PROJECT

MD 5

INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL MEDICINE
BOARD REVIEW
EXAM PREPARATION
RESIDENCY INFORMATION

END OF SECOND YEAR

The second year of medical school ends with the Introduction to Clinical Medicine program and enters into the third year to begin the Clinical Clerkship program. In the first two years of medical school, students focus on basic knowledge of health and disease and are introduced to the care of individuals and populations.

THIRD & FOURTH YEAR

In the third and fourth years, students become directly involved in the care and study of patients. They begin to work with members of teams caring for hospitalized patients. Third-year students rotate through the following clerkships: 12-week rotations in Internal Medicine and Surgery and 6-week rotations in Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Family Medicine.