Professionalism in the Curriculum

Year 1

• Medical Student Orientation Program
  • Goals of Medical Education
  • White Coat Ceremony
• Structure of the Human Body
  • Blessing of the Cadavers
  • Closure ceremony (student participants)
• Introduction to the Practice of Medicine I
  • Lectures:
    • Medicine as a Profession
    • Moral Reasoning
    • Catholicism and Health care
  • Experiential:
    • Mentor Program
    • Chaplain Mentor Program
• Function of the Human Body
  • Notation on attitudes in course introduction (syllabus)

Year 2

• Medical Humanities Program
  • Ethics Grand Rounds (students attend 2)
• Introduction to the Practice of Medicine II
  • Preceptor Program
• Developmental Human Biology 2
  • Ethical Issues in Assisted Reproduction
  • Care of the Dying Patient: Medical, Spiritual & Ethical

Year 3

• Medical Humanities Program
  • Ethics Grand Rounds (students attend 2)
  • Ethics Paper
• Medicine Clerkship
  • Lectures:
    • Spiritual Aspects of Sickness & Suffering
    • Instituting, Withholding & Withdrawing Life Sustaining therapy
  • Experiential:
    • Hospice visit
    • Chaplain rounds
• Family Medicine
  • Professional development is one of course goals
  • Log Book and Critical Incidents
  • Education contract
  • Underserved Medicine elective
• Introduction to the Practice of Medicine III
  • Ethics & Professionalism - day long session for all third year students

Year 4

• Medical Humanities Program
  • Two selective courses
• Medicine Subinternship
  • Lectures:
    • Ethics in the Intensive Care Unit
  • Experiential:
    • Teaching theory & practice (co-facilitators - IPM II)

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