Faculty Opportunities

Our Faculty produces leaders in Medicine who apply their broad medical education foundation to improving health through Johns Hopkins Medicine tripartite mission. Our graduates are measured by their ability to:

Patient care - Provide compassionate, appropriate, and effective patient care that treats health problems and promote health.
Medical Knowledge - Apply established and evolving biomedical, clinical, and cognate sciences knowledge to patient care.
Practice-based learning and improvement - Investigate, evaluate, and improve their patient care practices; appraise and assimilate scientific evidence.
Interpersonal and communication skills - Exchange information and team effectively with patients, their families, and professional associates.
Professionalism - Commit to carrying out professional responsibilities, adhering to ethical principles, and exercising sensitivity to diverse patient populations.
Systems-based practice - Keep aware and effectively respond to the larger context, health care system, and resources providing optimal valued patient care.

Genes to Society

Listen to Patricia Thomas,
M.D., Associate Dean for
Curriculum speak about GTS

Implemented in the fall of 2009, the Genes to Society Curriculum prepares students to look at a patient's biology, down to the cellular level, and dovetail external environmental and societal factors to truly come up with an accurate differential diagnosis and effective treatment plan. Concurrent courses reinforced with clinical experience replaced the consecutive courses of rote learning. Learning becomes three-dimensional through patient interaction from the first day. Review the new curriculum.

Course	Description
Scientific Foundations of Medicine	First three months preceding Genes to Society, emphasizing fundamental principles of basic sciences, social sciences, public health, and information skills reinforced during Genes to Society.
Clinical Foundations	Runs concurrent with Scientific Foundations of Medicine, begins patient-centered education by teaching clinical skills including interviewing, communication, and physical diagnosis.
Translational Inter-sessions	Occur six times during Genes to Society and during the clinical years, enabling students to revisit basic science topics applicable to the previous clinical clerkship. Years I and II provide week-long opportunities for students to break away from organ-based class work to focus on advanced clinical skills, simulation experiences, and areas of interest.
Genes to Society	Runs through the end of Year II, divided into disciplines that combine the "traditional", "normal", and "abnormal" and teach upon evidence-based medicine and a public health perspective framework.
Longitudinal Clerkship	Begins January of Year I and runs concurrent with Genes to Society. Students spend one afternoon, each week, with a dedicated preceptor in an outpatient setting, and experience didactic or web-based learning of common outpatient topics.
	Opportunities Primary Care specialists (Family Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics/ Gynecology) and Surgical, Medical and Pediatric specialists.
Transition to Wards	Six-week course includes integrative problem-based learning modules to consolidate and reinforce lessons of the first two years, as well as introduce students to specific content in preparation for the Basic Clinical Clerkships. Content includes ECGs, radiographs, clinical pathology, safety, pharmacy, information systems, and community resources.
Basic Clinical Clerkships	Begin Spring of Year II, provides a more structured cadence affording students exposure to all core clerkships before Year IV, while maintaining student flexibility and choice.
	Seven week clerkships, preceded by one-week of integrated clerkship and followed by one- week of basic science inter session.	Opportunities: Medicine Surgery Pediatrics (General Pediatricians collective or individual) Obstetrics/Gynecology
	Four week Clerkships	Neurology Psychiatry Emergency Medical
Advanced Clerkships	Sub-internships in Medicine, Surgery or Pediatrics, a chronic care clerkship (e.g. palliative care, rehabilitation, geriatrics), and a physiology-based or technology-intensive clerkship.
Students have ample opportunity in Years III and IV to take electives (e.g., Radiology, Urology, Orthopaedic's, etc.).