Transformative Education

Our redesigned curriculum allows us to train and inspire exceptional physicians and scientists through transformative education. We empower students to lead in innovation, research, health advocacy and humanistic care. This curriculum will transform our students and their learning environments to best meet the future needs of our local community and well beyond it.

As a Jacobs School medical student, you can maximize the value of your medical education.

Check out the top eight ways we’re elevating the medical school experience:

Key tenets of a comprehensive medical education — known as our pillars — are part of the framework of our program. They shape the instruction and assessment methods you’ll find in our curriculum. The connections bridging the pillars are what we call curricular threads:

Learning communities provide the infrastructure you need for meaningful educational experiences across our curriculum. You will receive support from faculty coaches and your learning community family while you progress through medical school:

We aim to engage you in higher-order thinking and promote more absorbable learning. That’s why we emphasize case-based inquiry learning (CBIL) — which is, essentially, learning for the long haul:

If you choose UB for medical school, you can take advantage of a key element of our Well Beyond curriculum: a shortened Phase 1.

During Phase 2 of training, we’ll challenge you to use your strong foundation of knowledge well beyond the classroom as you embark on core clinical clerkships.

Our redesigned curriculum provides ample opportunities to support the needs of community members — many struggling with significant health and social inequities.

Phase 3 of our program will help you feel well beyond prepared for the challenges awaiting you after medical school.

We’ve incorporated into our new curriculum a health sciences scholarly project: