The MD Program focuses on:

• interdisciplinary learning through courses, elective opportunities and student interaction
  
• team teaching, including university-and community-based faculty and staff, and student tutoring;
  
• new methods of assessing student mastery of defined skills;
  
• continuous, comprehensive evaluation of programs;
  
• community-based service learning projects;
  
• integration of public health into all four years of the curriculum;
  
• collaborating with students by including them in decision making.