Medical Sciences Curriculum: Years 1 & 2
The RUSM medical school program begins with a first semester that gives everyone the opportunity to adjust to the large volume of material and fast pace of medical school teaching and learning.
Medical School Curriculum
The RUSM Curriculum will require you to be on campus for approximately 20 months, or 75 weeks. Study modules are spaced out over five semesters, and the curriculum includes integrated study breaks to encourage and manage knowledge acquisition.
| RUSM Curriculum (5 Semesters) |
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| Academics | Semesters 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 |
| Tuition | For those starting in May 2022 and after: $20,920/ semester - 5 semesters for Medical Sciences $24,660/ semester - 6 semesters for Clinical Sciences |
| Length: Basic Sciences | 75 weeks |
| Length: Clinical Sciences, including Internal Medicine Foundations | 90 weeks |
| Total Program Length | 165 weeks |
NOTE: The accelerated track has been retired as of February 7, 2022.
Hands-on Learning – Teaching Facilities
Throughout the Medical Sciences curriculum, students are exposed in RUSM educational facilities to a wide variety of active learning experiences that are closely tied to their traditional lecture and case-based learning in both timing and context. These experiences include clinical skills training, standardized patient cases, small-group learning, and other clinically relevant activities. This approach helps students begin to think like doctors early in their medical school experience, and better prepares them for their medical licensing exams.
Medical School Facilities
RUSM understands the important role technology plays in medicine and is committed to providing students with an advanced learning environment. The medical school facilities, on an entirely wireless campus, are equipped with the advanced instructional technology and learning systems that today’s medical student needs to leverage every aspect of their basic sciences education.
Classrooms and Laboratories
All of our classrooms and laboratories are equipped with an array of high-resolution monitors that are connected to state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment and media players, which faculty use to enhance the teaching experience. Large rear projection video display systems and additional plasma screen monitors offer clear views of the teaching material for every seat in the classroom, and teleconferencing systems provide learning opportunities for students both on and off campus.
Campus Facilities Include:
● Anatomical Sciences and Medical Imaging Facility
● Simulation Institute
● Standardized Patient and Interview Skills Training Rooms
● Patient Examination rooms with A/V links to classrooms
● Medical Library
● Multipurpose study rooms
Simulation Lab
Simulation is an essential part of the Medical Sciences curriculum at RUSM. Our accredited Simulation Institute* gives students access to sophisticated computerized patient simulators to practice basic and diagnostic treatment skills.
*Ross University School of Medicine’s Simulation Institute is accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH, www.ssih.org) in the areas of Teaching/Education, since November 2013.
Gross Anatomy Curriculum
RUSM is committed to the quality of its academic programs and to providing students with a challenging and robust learning environment. To modernize Gross Anatomy curriculum and enhance student learning, we’re proud to introduce a new digital-based Gross Anatomy curriculum, including digital anatomy tables.
Keeping with advanced learning and trends in medical learning technology, this digital curriculum creates time efficiencies and enhancements to Gross Anatomy instruction.
In recent years, medical and osteopathic schools have adapted to include more digital-based teaching to complement the instruction of Gross Anatomy, which includes the replacement of cadaveric dissection. Our Gross Anatomy curriculum is currently delivered using lecture-based instruction and cadaveric dissection in small learning groups, with the digital offering of Complete Anatomy used as an added learning resource.
The introduction of digital anatomy tables with life-size digital cadavers allows for dissection and exploration of all aspects of learning in the Anatomy lab with the added benefit of integrated clinical cases and radiological images.
We dedicate three lab spaces for the delivery of the digital curriculum. The two larger spaces are dedicated to Anatomy and the third is used for ultrasound imaging and applied anatomy hands-on training sessions. You will experience a structural and functional approach to Anatomy, with clinical integration and the correlation of pathology histology and ultrasound imaging.
