At UT Southwestern Medical School, we offer a world-class medical education, renowned faculty, outstanding facilities, and a world-wide reputation for producing physicians and medical professionals who are:

• Superbly trained
• Inspired to maintain lifelong medical scholarship
• Deeply committed to responsible and compassionate patient care

UT Southwestern faculty, residents, and students annually provide direct care to more than 100,000 hospitalized patients and oversee approximately 2.2 million outpatient visits.

Curriculum: A Foundation for Excellence

Newly revised in 2015, our dynamic curriculum engages students by integrating strong basic science preparation and extensive, real-world clinical experiences from the first year on.

Our curriculum comprises three distinctive periods – Pre-Clerkship, Clerkship, and Post-Clerkship – each of which offers different but complementary experiences:

Abbreviations: BSF = Body Structure Foundations; FBS = Fundamentals of Biomedical Sciences; FCR = Foundations of Clinical Reasoning; TC = Transitions to Clerkship; FiM = Frontiers in Medicine; PS = Physicians and Society; TCT = Transitions in Clinical Training.
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For current students, see our Curriculum for Graduating Classes Through 2018.

“We strive to create the best clinicians and physician-scientists in the nation, professionals whose knowledge, compassion, and leadership will serve as examples of excellence both to peers and patients alike.”

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