BCM Curriculum for the Next Generation Curriculum Transformation Overview
Building Community ● Cultivating Collaboration ● Mastering Knowledge and Skills
The BCM SOM Curriculum Committee approved core guiding principles for renewing the Baylor College of Medicine medical school curriculum. The BCM School of Medicine (SOM) Curriculum Renewal Project will develop a learner-centered curriculum in the School of Medicine that will align our educational activities with the BCM vision, strategic plan, values, and beliefs. The resulting curriculum will prepare our learners to become the next generation of leaders in the biomedical and health sciences with competencies founded in inquiry, service, and innovation to promote health and transform healthcare locally and globally.
Please note that the curriculum renewal is undergoing continuous review and improvement. Curricular proposals and schemas are subject to change at any time.
Guiding Principles
Individualization
- Customized third-year courses
- Longitudinal pathways for areas of distinction
- Specialty-specific mentorship
- Personalized learning analytics
Integration
- Early clinical experiences
- Case-based foundations
- Advanced basic-science application courses
- Near peer and broad faculty teaching
- Transition courses
- Interprofessional experiences
Inquiry & Innovation
- Emphasis on curiosity and critical thinking
- Capstone scholarly project
- Team-based, active learning curricula
Identity
- Emphasis on professional development and wellness
- Learning communities and advising
- Reflection and intersessions
- Teamwork and Team Science
Longitudinal Evolving Themes and Courses Through the Four Years
| Preparing to Enter the Profession (PREP) | Metacognition, Inquiry, and Discovery (MIND) | Emerging Topics in Medicine |
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| Education, experiences and mentoring to facilitate skills in self-care, professional development and in caring for patients and populations | Explores the basic tools of inquiry, craft and implement an individualized scholarly project and communicate new knowledge | Addresses innovation and emerging trends in medicine to prepare future physicians to practice medicine in an ever-changing environment |
Proposed Pathways
Provide students with the opportunity to explore their interests and customize their education to match their career goals.
- Care of the Underserved
- Global Health
- Medical Research
- Ethics
- Health Policy
- Population Health and Quality Improvement
- Genetics and Genomics
- Medical Educators
- Space Medicine
Proposed Advanced Clinical Applications
Month-long, student-selected third-year courses that integrate foundational and clinical sciences based on specialty and career interests.
- Advanced surgical anatomy
- Applied pathophysiology and pharmacology
- Business and Medicine
- Communication
- Diagnostic and management reasoning
- Fundamentals of investigation and implementation
- Global medicine
- Informatics
- Innovations in medicine
- Laboratory medicine and high value care
- Leadership
- Point-of-care ultrasound
- Procedural skills
- Public health and health policy
- Radiology
- Teaching and learning
