Highlights

  • Explore the curriculum, and find out how Pittsburgh students learn that the patient is a person first.

  • Resources include academic support for students and easy links about courses, clerkships, and facilities.

  • The SP Program provides students the opportunity to become compassionate communicators and influential members of the medical community.

  • OMED's leadership strives to provide high-quality training that will fuel innovation and empower future providers.

  • Future Students

    Explore the curriculum, and find out how Pittsburgh students learn that the patient is a person first.

  • Current Students

    Resources include academic support for students and easy links about courses, clerkships, and facilities.

  • Standardized/Simulation Patient Interaction

    SP Program

    The SP Program provides students the opportunity to become compassionate communicators and influential members of the medical

  • Course Directors & Faculty

    OMED's leadership strives to provide high-quality training that will fuel innovation and empower future providers.

Our Curriculum

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (UPSOM) has a well-developed curricular infrastructure that combines a lecture- and problem-based curriculum with early and in-depth clinical experiences and an integrated organ systems approach to the preclinical sciences. The clinical years are characterized by an integrated clerkship structure and an emphasis on student flexibility.