University of Illinois College of Medicine

To advance health for everyone through outstanding education, research, clinical care, and social responsibility. Mission in Action: We achieve this mission through an innovative and evolving curriculum that integrates the basic, clinical and social sciences, and through a learning environment that emphasizes self-directed, individualized and experiential learning on three three vibrant campuses that are strategically located to serve the communities of interest for our mission. We prepare our graduates to provide compassionate patient care; to demonstrate effective inter-professional collaboration, leadership and advocacy in health care; to provide care for underserved urban and rural populations; and to translate research discoveries into clinical practice. Our large network of graduates serve in a variety of academic, public, private, rural, and urban communities. Our mission-informed admissions process embraces holistic review where equal consideration is given to experiences, attributes, and metrics and because of our emphasis on our mission we are able to select a cohort of students each year that is broadly diverse with richly varied passions. Our curriculum, educational support, student affairs, and financial aid teams are poised to provide individualized attention for all of our students. To prepare you for your medical career, our curriculum: • helps you make powerful connections between the fundamentals of scientific knowledge and the decision-making of patient care • ensures that you have plenty of skills practice including patient interviewing, clinical reasoning, forming differential diagnoses, and choosing among treatment options • teaches you the problem-solving skills and study skills that will prepare you for the life- long professional skill of medical inquiry • engages in a continuous dialog about developing your professional identity and voice, gaining perspective on patients’ micro and macro barriers to receiving care, and placing medical treatment in the context of health of individuals, families, and communities The College of Medicine recognizes that physicians-in-training must learn how to be effective members of interdisciplinary clinical teams; how to search for up-to-date, credible, professional sources of medical information; and how to navigate the changing landscape of healthcare delivery. The Illinois Medicine Curriculum is the product of our community’s collaborative design process that includes students, faculty who teach medical sciences, faculty who teach clinical medicine, medical education scholars, instructional designers, and experts in assessment and evaluation. It is characterized by • case-based learning as its core • teaching of basic sciences with clinical applications • maximization of active learning • integrated career development and exploration