Curriculum
The Indiana University School of Medicine has received national and international recognition for its innovative curriculum. In 2003, it was one of ten medical schools nationwide chosen by the American Medical Association to develop new methods of teaching professionalism to doctors. In order to ensure that its educational process more accurately reflected its commitment to graduating caring and competent physicians, the Indiana University School of Medicine initiated a competency curriculum in 1999. The first class of students to enter under a four-year competency curriculum graduated in 2003.
The newly established curriculum consists of nine competencies: Effective Communication; Basic Clinical Skills; Using Science to Guide Diagnosis, Management, Therapeutics, and Prevention; Lifelong Learning; Self-Awareness, Self-Care, and Personal Growth; the Social and Community Contexts of Health Care; Moral Reasoning and Ethical Judgment; Problem-Solving; and Professionalism and Role Recognition. Assessment and certification of achievement of the nine competencies is sequentially integrated into each year of the curriculum culminating with a competency transcript upon graduation.
To model and support the moral, professional, and humane values expressed in the new formal competency-based curriculum, the IU School of Medicine simultaneously implemented a school-wide "relationship-centered care initiative" to address its informal curriculum.
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