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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE encourages applications from students who have achieved a high level of academic performance and who manifest in their personal lives those human qualities compatible with a career of service to society. SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL The Universitys mission (DESLOGE TOWERS) statement affirms the value of a diverse educational environment to prepare students for life and work in a global society. To foster this mission, the School of Medicine strives to recruit, admit, retain, and graduate a diverse student body. Besides ethnicity, this diversity encompasses differences based on gender, culture, and economic circumstances. HELPFUL WEBSITES AND E-MAIL ADDRESSES
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The Combined MD/MPH Degree Program

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at Saint Louis University is undergoing exciting changes. The program is being enhanced, expanded, and will have a new focus- care for the urban underserved. This five-year EDWARD A. DOISY program (rolling out in the fall RESEARCH CENTER 2013) will allow students entry prior to beginning medical school, unlike most MD/MPH programs in which students elect to obtain their MPH degree at some point after they have started medical school. This entry path will allow us to provide an integrated five-year educational program that begins in the first week of medical school. Students will follow the traditional path of taking medical school classes for the first three years, then in the fourth year of the program take most, if not all of their MPH coursework (see curricular schematics). Through longitudinal electives and volunteer service opportunities across the first two years of the curriculum, students will be able to learn more about public health and also will become engaged in meaningful ways with patients, families, and underserved communities in St. Louis city though partnerships with community service agencies such as Community Health in Partnerships, a free clinic in north St. Louis city. A number of curricular changes will enhance students ability to engage in these activities in meaningful ways. Students have an average of one day every other week across the first two years for electives. The pre-clinical curriculum in the medical school is pass/ fail; which allows students significant freedom to pursue electives and a range of extra-curricular activities. In addition, the new curriculum plan will give students the opportunity to take a number of two -week and three-week community-focused electives in the third year.

thankgiving break

winter break

MD/MPH DEGREE PROGRAM

PHASE 1 Foundations Phase

AUGUST Cellular and Molecular Biology 8 weeks Epi/Bio 3 weeks ACS 1 (Longitudinal) Elective (Longitudinal) Clinical Anatomy 7 weeks NOVEMBER MHR 7 weeks Pharm 7 weeks MHR Pharm MARCH Pathology 4 weeks

MPH Year Courses

SUMMER BST-500 PUBH-502 FALL BSDP-570 BSH-500 XXX-### (1) or EOH-500 (2) EPI-500 HMP-550 PUBH-592 PUBH-501 XXX-### SPRING XXX-### (1) or EOH-500 (2) XXX-### (1) PUBH-511 PUBH-562 PUBH-592 PUBH-594 (3) PUBH-595 PUBH-625

Credits
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 3 3

YEAR 4 Principles of Biostatistics Ethical Issues in Public Health (hybrid or online format) Public Health and Disasters (online format) Behavioral Science and Public Health (online format) Elective or Environmental and Occupational Health Principles of Epidemiology Health Policy Public Health Rounds: Integrating Public Health Practice Foundations of Public Health Practice (online format) SPH or SOM Elective

ACS 1 Elective

ACS 1 Elective

PHASE 2 Core Knowledge Phase

MARCH AUGUST DECEMBER APRIL

summer break

HCE 7 wks ACS2 Longitudinal Bedside Diagnosis Longitudinal Electives Longitudinal

(10 weeks)

D&D 2 wks ACS2 Longitudinal Bedside Diagnosis Longitudinal Electives Longitudinal

thanksgiving break

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Neuro BMH Heme 7 wks 2 wks 3 wks

Cardio Resp Renal GI 5 wks 4 wks 4 wks 5 wks

GI 5 wks

SBJ Endo Step 3 wks 5 wks 1 Study Time 8 wks

Elective or Environmental and Occupational Health Elective Managerial Aspects of Public Health Practice Politics and Public Health Advocacy Public Health Rounds: Integrating Public Health Practice Practice Experience in Public Health Special Study for Examinations Capstone in Public Health Practice

3 3 3 3 0 0 0 3

ACS2 BD Elec

ACS2 BD Elec

FIFTH-YEAR REQUIREMENTS Two 3-week subinternships (at least one of which has to be in IM or Peds) 3-week ambulatory Internal Medicine rotation 3-week required capstone course 2 or 3-week Emergency Medicine requirement (2-week if done in year 3, 3-week if done in year 4) COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION

PHASE 3 Core Clinical Phase

MARCH DECEMBER APRIL Peds 8 weeks

Subject

Semester Hours

clerkship orientation

1 week break

ACS 3 Longitudinal

ACS 3 Longitudinal Inter-professional Team Seminars

winter break

Internal Medicine (Inpt) 8 weeks

Surgery 8 weeks

Psych/ Neuro 4 weeks each

OB Gyn* 8 weeks

Family Med* 8 weeks ACS 3 Longitudinal IPTS

General Biology or Zoology Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physics English Other Humanities and Behavioral Sciences

8* 8* 8* 8* 6 12

*A laboratory course is required in these sciences. MCAT is required.