Application Process
A goal of the NextGen curriculum is for all medical students to graduate from the Miller School with a scholarly concentration. For M.D./Ph.D. students their graduate Ph.D. training replaces this concentration requirement. NextGen consists of three phases.
Phase 1
This phase is 14 months of foundational and translational sciences. These are taught and learned through symptom-based virtual clinics that incorporate health systems science, social determinants of health, core clinical skills, and professionalism.
Phase 1A - Introduction to the medical profession
Phase 1B - Foundations of medicine and the well patient
Phase 1C - Examines human disease through symptoms
Phase 2
This stage consists of 4 x 12 week integrated clinical clerkships, where continued themes of foundational, translational, and health systems sciences are embedded within clerkships.
Clerkships include:
1. Practice of Medicine (Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Geriatrics, Palliative Care)
2. From ER to the OR (Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia, Surgery)
3. Mind, Matter and Medicine (Neurology, Psychiatry)
4. Health through the Lifespan (Obstetrics-Gynecology, Pediatrics)
MSTP students take two of these clerkships (one must be Practice of Medicine) and then study for and take USMLE Step 1. At this point, students transition to their PhD training for 3-4 yrs.
Completion of Phase 2 and Phase 3
After the PhD dissertation defense, MSTP students return for the last two 12-week core clerkships of Phase 2, take UMSLE Step 2, and complete Phase 3 during the last year of medical school, which includes electives, sub-internships, application for residency, completion of research, papers or clinical research, and transition to residency and specialty bootcamps.