1. Professionalism and Humanism
Demonstrates integrity, respect, and ethical reasoning, and
promotes inclusion of differences in all interactions to improve healthcare for patients, communities, and populations.
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. Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Demonstrates compassionate, effective, holistic, evidence-informed, and equitable patient-centered care.
3. Medical Knowledge
Applies and integrates foundational knowledge to improve healthcare for patients and populations.
4. Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Integrates feedback, evidence, and reflection to adapt behavior, foster improvement, and cultivate life-long learning.
5. Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Effectively communicates and interacts with patients, caregivers, and the healthcare team to contribute to high-quality patient-centered care.
6. Systems-Based Practice
Applies knowledge of the larger context of health, including its social and structural determinants, and of systems and resources within and outside of health care, to optimize high-quality care for patients, communities, and populations.
7. Social Justice and Health Equity
Utilizes recognized mechanisms to reduce health disparities and advance health equity in patients, communities, and healthcare systems.
8. Discovery and Dissemination
Demonstrates intellectual curiosity and the skills necessary to create new knowledge, devise plans for implementation of ethical research and communicate of findings.
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
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.