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The learning environment at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic
Medicine (OU-COM) is constructed based on the principles of adult learning
which include student empowerment and clinical relevance. Students enrolled
in OU-COM study in one of two tracks –
the Patient-Centered Continuum (PCC)
curriculum or the
Clinical Presentation Continuum (CPC)
curriculum. Both curricula view your medical education as an organized
building process that extends from the first day of medical school through
residency training and beyond. Students in both curricula begin interacting
with real patients in the first weeks of their medical education.
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”I always wanted to be
an orthopedic surgeon even before I went to medical school. I was just
really fascinated by musculoskeletal injuries, in sports, in athletic
types of things. It’s an expanding field, medicine has never
been better in terms of technology.”
Daryl Sybert, D.O. (‘86),
spinal surgeon, OrthoNeuro Institute, Columbus, Ohio. |
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Years 1 and 2
The
PCC
curriculum provides opportunities for the integration of
clinical, biomedical and social medicine fundamentals in the
small group setting. Students work together to identify
learning issues based on patient-centered cases designed by
clinical and basic science faculty. Learning issues
developed by the students serve as an outline to guide
faculty in providing additional guidance through interactive
problem sets and resource hours.
The
CPC
curriculum is organized around important or common symptoms
that bring patients to see her/his physician. Within this
context faculty-directed, structured learning activities are
provided to help students learn the clinical, biomedical and
social fundamentals of medicine relevant to the related
disease processes. Faculty written objectives provide an
outline to guide student learning.
The
chart on the next page compares and contrasts the PCC and
the CPC curricula. Click
here to see the schedules for
each curriculum.
“In either
curriculum that you choose,
you will have to do more research…and teaching each other
than most of us [were] exposed to in our undergraduate
careers.”
Student,
Class of 2005
Years 3
and 4
After
two years on the Athens campus, OU-COM students are assigned
to a hospital in our
Centers for Osteopathic
Research and Education (CORE) system to
complete training during their third and fourth years in a
clinical environment. This assignment is accomplished by
means of a lottery that is conducted in the fall of the
student’s second year. Click
here
to learn
more about the CORE hospitals and graduate medical education
opportunities.
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