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The Curricula
Students enrolled in OU-HCOM study in one of two tracks –
the Patient-Centered Continuum
(PCC) curriculum or the Clinical Presentation Continuum
(CPC)
curriculum. Both curricula view 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.
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 direct 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. This faculty-directed
curriculum provides structured learning topics, learning
activities and readings to help students learn the clinical,
biomedical and social fundamentals of medicine relevant to the
related disease processes.
“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-HCOM 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. To learn more about the CORE hospitals
and graduate medical education opportunities, visit the CORE Web
site located at
http://www.ohiocore.org/. | 
