Curriculum Overview

Rapid changes in health care delivery, biomedical knowledge, and technology require students entering medical school to confront a wide range of new information, practices, and issues as they proceed through their education and careers. With our long tradition of excellence in clinical training, TUSM provides a curriculum that balances state-of-the-art science with the humanities and art of medicine, while remaining a leader in curricular innovation. Our curriculum enables our graduates to assume lifelong scientific, scholarly, and humanistic professional attitudes as they face the myriad of challenges facing physicians in the 21st century.

Curriculum Details:

Longitudinal Integrated Curriculum

A partnership between Tufts University and Maine Medical Center is giving medical students hands on experience while serving Maine communities.

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Innovative Curriculum

In 1986, Tufts School of Medicine was one of the first to pioneer Problem-Based Learning (PBL), a small-group case-based approach to learning. Today most medical schools use this highly effective teaching method.

Tufts University

Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University are international leaders in innovative medical education and advanced research. The School of Medicine and the Sackler School are renowned for excellence in education in general medicine, biomedical sciences, special combined degree programs in business, health management, public health, bioengineering and international relations, as well as basic and clinical research at the cellular and molecular level.

Ranked among the top in the nation, the School of Medicine is affiliated with six major teaching hospitals and more than 30 health care facilities. Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School undertake research that is consistently rated among the highest in the nation for its effect on the advancement of medical science.