How to Get Into Emory Medical School: Tips To Get Accepted

How to Get Into Emory Medical School – Know the Curriculum

Emory Medical School Curriculum Overview: 

Overview: You spend 1.5 years doing pre-clinical courses and then study for USMLE Step 1. Then, during years 2.5 – 3.5, you do clinical rotations. You then have 1/2 a year to do whatever scholarly research or project you desire. Your project can be in creative writing, health policy, medical education, bench research, or community health.

Emory Medical School Pre-Clinical Curriculum:

As an Emory Medical School student, you do your pre-clinical years in 1.5 years. During your first week of medical school, you shadow doctors for a week. Then, you start learning clinical skills in small groups. Anatomy course is both dissection, but you get to follow along with an electronic dissection of the human body. After 1/2 of your first year, you start learning human pathophysiology and disease through organ systems.

Starting your first year, you start a longitudinal clinic where you spend one afternoon a week working with a doctor. You do this throughout all four years of medical school and you get to know a patient panel well and follow them through their disease courses.

You spend time studying for Step 1 after your pre-clinic year and then you start your clinical rotations.

Unique highlights about pre-clinical years:

• Start medical school with 1 week of shadowing doctors in the hospital
• 1.5 years
• Anatomy with an electronic curriculum
• Many faculty have connections with the CDC (Center for Disease Control)
• Pass/Fail
• Organ-based
• Start working with your Longitudinal Clinical preceptor and see patients in the community

Taking Time Off:

Emory Med School is flexible with taking time off but most students graduate in 4 years.

Dual Degree Programs Offered at Emory University School of Medicine:

• MD/PhD
• MD/MPH
• MD/MA
• MD/MBA