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的 video above features first-year medical student interactions with a patient during 呼吸模块.

的 课程 at 美国医学院 focuses on the concept of education across the continuum.  It is fueled by the challenge in medical education of how best to move the matriculating medical student along the pathway to becoming a competent physician and life-long 学习者.  的 job is complex as young physicians must be able to satisfy an ever increasing level of competency in all aspects of their profession.  USA COM的目标是 provide a dynamic plan of learning expectations and awareness in training of what needs to be accomplished toward expertise of becoming a competent physician.

的 educational objectives are framed around the six core competencies for medical training delineated by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and American Board of Medical Specialties in 1999.  的 USA COM 课程 is devoted to the integrated instruction of all competencies beginning in the first week of medical 学校.  Replacing traditional discipline based basic science courses, instruction commences with a two-year sequence of modules devoted to different organ systems.

的 goal of engaging students in a holistic 课程 across the full four years of medical 学校 at USA has improved training and competency in all areas that define 医学:医学的科学和艺术.  Progress toward the synthesis of skills into observable behaviors related to each competency are carefully assessed in a series of milestones designed to achieve national standards of excellence at every level of training during the entire undergraduate medical education program.