Application Process
Clinical Case Reviews
At this monthly all-program lunch meeting, two to three MSTP students present a clinical case, with a physician faculty member serving as a facilitator to guide students through the approach to the patient.
Often, students meet with the faculty member in their clinic or the hospital ward and pick a real clinical case on the medical campus. Major goals of clinical case reviews are to reduce the gap in medical curriculum continuity during graduate training and to improve clinical reasoning skills for all students. The session concludes with discussion of clinical treatment options and new advances, related disorders, disease mechanisms and recent scientific studies, or epidemiological issues relevant to the case. This reinforces the bridge between research and clinical practice. Cases are from all major divisions of medicine, and sessions are scheduled to parallel the curriculum of students in the preclinical medical school years.