Course Description
The Personal and Professional Development (PPD) vertically integrated curriculum is
a part of Topics in Clinical Medicine (TCM), a required course that has content
longitudinally across pre-clinical and clinical years. The PPD curriculum aims
to achieve goals set by the Stritch competencies, that by graduation, Stritch
students should be able to "demonstrate the qualities required to assure
lifelong personal and professional growth by cultivating the maturity and
adaptability required to manage the adversity and uncertainty inherent in the
practice of medicine."