Curriculum 2024-2025

Required Courses

Graduation Requirements

To graduate from the program, students must:

• Accumulate 34 credit hours
• Earn a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher (i.e. a B average)
• Earn a passing grade in all required courses (i.e. may not graduate with a 'fail', 'incomplete', or 'no grade' in a required course)

Since the SMP is a one-year program, there is no opportunity to re-take courses as a way of improving grades.

Grading in Medical School Courses

One of the key elements of the master's program is the ranking of performance versus the medical students also enrolled in the two major instructional blocks in the first-year medical-school (M1) curriculum at UC College of Medicine. Information relating to your performance is compared to the medical class (your scores on the components of each Block as well as your "class rank" relative to medical students). This information is obviously a very important component of your future application to medical school since it relates specifically to your potential success as a medical student. In addition, assessment in Graduate Medical Physiology 1 is based on secure examinations used during the past decade at UC College of Medicine in the Medical Physiology course. The performance of medical students on that secure question bank are well-established and provide an additional historical comparison with medical students at UC College of Medicine.