1. Patient Care
Students must be prepared to provide patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective.
MD Program
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.
An Innovative Medical Education
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.
Competencies and Objectives
We provide a breadth and depth of learning experiences while helping students attain a mastery level in all of our schoolwide competencies.
2. Medical Knowledge
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.
3. Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
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.
4. Interpersonal Communication and Skills
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.
5. Professionalism
Students must demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to a diverse patient population.
6. Systems-Based Practice
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.
Curriculum
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:
- Patient- and Family-Centered Care in the Community Context
- Evidence-Based Medicine
- Health Systems Science
Unique Programs and Experiences
Our prestigious and rigorous Distinction Programs support and recognize students who have shown exceptional involvement, accomplishment, and scholarship in specialized areas of medical education.
Inspiring Humanistic Healers
At Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, our programs integrate humanism into the heart of medical education, fostering generations of physicians whose practice is as compassionate as it is skilled.
Requirements for Promotion and Graduation
Candidates for the doctor of medicine degree must demonstrate the essential attitudes, skills, knowledge, and professional behaviors necessary to successfully complete the curriculum. They must also fulfill the technical standards set by Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Our program is designed to ensure that our MD students are fully prepared to embark on their medical careers and poised to make meaningful contributions to the field.
Supporting Our Students
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is committed to fostering a diverse learning community of students, faculty and staff from a broad spectrum of nations, cultures, and historical perspectives. Our collective goal is to create an institutional consciousness of diversity reinforced with equity and excellence through inclusion, non-discrimination, and pluralism for all members of the university community.