Candidates spend their first two years completing the regular medical school curriculum while also taking a research methods course and attending weekly seminars offering an overview of bioscience investigation.
Choice of a thesis adviser and an intensive period of original research follow in the second year. In the final years of the program, candidates rejoin other medical students to complete the clinical phase of medical school.
"Our aim is to produce a physician who can apply clinical understanding to the study of disease and a scientist who sees beyond the test-tube to apply in-depth thinking and understanding to the whole patient," said Roberta Bernstein, program coordinator.
Tobacman said the consistent support of the UIC College of Medicine has made it possible to build a program that can attract and train students "who will define the future of medical science."
--Associated Press
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