Learning Environment

We offer all ISMMS students a learning environment that features:

• Active, small group, and team-based learning opportunities that encourage collective problem solving and peer teaching.
• Early interactions with patients through the Longitudinal Clinical Experience Program partnering pairs of medical students with a patient and supervising physician.
• Protected half-days of Flex Time in Years 1-4 for self-directed individualized learning, discovery, and leadership development.
• Faculty advisories that support medical students around academics, wellness, and career advising throughout their medical school journey.
• Learning support for medical students around adjustment to medical school, study strategies and effective ways to make the most out of courses, clerkships and study resources.
• Four-year wellness curriculum emphasizes resilience training and empathy
• Ample time and mentorship for exploration of career choices, and flexible scheduling including the option of adding a Scholarly Year.
• Specialty-specific skills-based preparation for supervised practice in residency.
• The SCHOLaR (Scholarship and Research) Program, which offers students the opportunity to obtain mentored research training to develop a scholarly project. Students identify mentors and then work with a track advisor, along with their mentors, to develop projects that fulfill the scholarly product requirement.
• A strong emphasis on service learning and urban primary care in the curriculum and in the community.
• Opportunities to travel internationally and participate in advanced mentored missions that address the health care, education, research, and public health needs of our global community.