The Robert Wood Johnson Medical School MD program is the gateway to pursue your dreams to heal, innovate, and make the world a healthier place.
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School offers a competency-based MD program that delivers flexible, integrative, and innovative medical education. We have adopted the Accreditation Committee for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competencies to serve as the organizational curriculum framework for medical students.
The block curriculum integrates basic sciences and clinical medicine around multidisciplinary themes and common clinical presentations. The innovative teaching methods and technologies promote learning through discovery and collaboration.
We provide a breadth and depth of learning experiences while helping students attain a mastery level in all of our schoolwide competencies.
Students must be prepared to provide patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective.
Students must demonstrate knowledge about established and evolving basic and clinical biomedical sciences, including epidemiological and social/behavioral sciences, and their application of this knowledge to patient care.
Students must be able to engage in self-evaluation regarding their academic and clinical performance, develop plans for personal improvement, and recognize how the application of new learning can be used to improve patient care.
Students must be able to demonstrate both verbal and written communication skills that result in effective information exchange with patients, patients' families, peers, and other health professions colleagues.
Students must demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to a diverse patient population.
Students must be able to function effectively in teams and within a larger organizational structure. They must demonstrate an awareness of the larger context and system of health care and of the resources available within the system to provide optimal care to individual patients and groups. Finally, students must demonstrate an awareness of current barriers to health care and of the various strategies designed to assist patients in gaining access to care.
In 2021, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School launched the “5 Cs” Curriculum, which focuses on curiosity, critical thinking, clinical skills, competence, and compassion. This curriculum places foundational knowledge in the context of the practice of medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 33 Core Clinical Conditions. Our culture promotes well-being and students will learn to curate knowledge, to embrace strategies that enhance quality and patient safety, and to develop behaviors that lead to better health and health care for all.
In addition to the 5 Cs, there are also unifying themes that appear across the four years of our curriculum: