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Medicine (MD) at University of Southern California

University of Southern California, United States

Programme overview

The Keck School of Medicine's MD uses a Physician-Citizen-Scholar curriculum that trains students as physicians, researchers and agents of health equity, with clinical settings and patient care involvement from the first weeks.

Faculty: Keck School of Medicine of USC  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States

What you will study

Three phases: Pre-Clerkship (scientific and clinical foundations, Introduction to Clinical Medicine, service learning); Clerkship (six-week Family Medicine, Surgery, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and four-week Neurology, plus Health Justice and Systems of Care); and Post-Clerkship (Internal Medicine sub-internship, critical care or emergency medicine elective, 12 weeks of core clinical electives, a Senior Seminar, a scholarly project and Transition to Residency). An optional fifth-year research option is available.

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