Office of Admissions Hosts Student Panel Stream on Shared Discovery Curriculum

With Shared Discovery only in its third year of implementation at the College of Human Medicine, the truth is that we in the Office of Admissions naturally still receive plenty of great questions about our relatively new, innovative curriculum.

For this reason, we chose the SDC as our topic of discussion in this, the third installment of our Facebook Live Stream series.

Francisco, from the admissions team, moderated the hour-long discussion and was joined by second-year students, George and Enrique, as well as first-year student, Maryssa.

The panel touched on a variety of points regarding the curriculum, including the transition to a curriculum without lectures or constant testing. The students gave their own takes on how the curriculum, as a vehicle for medical training, has prepared them well for boards and offered some anecdotes about the great opportunities they've had with patients as part of real clinical teams.

You can watch the whole discussion here:



Don't forget that you can always follow the Office of Admissions on Facebook and Twitter to ask a questions and for more updates, events. 

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