We prepare students to practice medicine in the real world, now and in the future.
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Early, authentic exposure to team-based medicine
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Mentored, hypothesis-driven investigation
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Regular self-reflection and improvement
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Inquiry, critical thinking and knowledge application through clinical cases
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Our MD Curriculum is an integrated three-phase structure. Throughout each phase, the curriculum emphasizes four curricular elements and weaves in seven threads designed to help students develop into evidence-based clinicians who provide cost-effective, safe, quality care as part of an interprofessional team.
Our educational program is structured around and continuously informed by nine organizing principles that value inclusivity, community, competency and more.
Feinberg has a competency-based education framework that explicitly defines our curricular expectations and goals as well as our assessment standards.
The elements, threads and learning strategies of our program are interwoven for a wide-ranging, purposeful education.
All physicians must be able to continually monitor their performance, identify areas for improvement and take concrete steps to grow in an ever-changing field. Feinberg is dedicated to cultivating habits of self-assessment, personal improvement and reflective capacity in our students. Throughout their training, students review their assessment data in our comprehensive portfolio system, create learning goals and reflect on their performance — all with the supportive guidance of a physician mentor.
We strive to create a culture where giving and receiving constructive feedback is a welcome and comfortable occurrence so our students can continually grow toward their full potential.
Medicine in the United States struggles with a history of inequitable care for persons of color and continued health disparities related to socioeconomic status and other factors. Feinberg is committed to curriculum content addressing disparities and implicit bias. We offer awareness training at the beginning of medical school, led by Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion Clyde Yancy, MD, and again before starting clinical rotations. Similar discussions and curricula are required for faculty, including clerkship and residency program directors. This enhanced cultural awareness enables our students, resident physicians and clinical faculty to provide care in a more equitable manner and to better acknowledge the cultural diversity of the populations we serve.
Because of the importance of this topic, a two-year certificate program is also available for residents and fellows at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University.
From the first week of medical school, Feinberg students train in several world-class and safety-net hospitals as well as community-based clinics and offices throughout Chicago, including three U.S. News and World Report Honor Roll Hospitals: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, and the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. In the clinical phases of the curriculum, students have the opportunity to rotate at the Jesse Brown VA Hospital as well as the John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. At each affiliated hospital, students are overseen by FSM faculty. Students have a consistent role and level of responsibility for each clinical discipline regardless of clinical site. Learn more about the clinical spaces in which MD students learn and contribute.
Passionate faculty educators are essential to Feinberg's ability to train tomorrow's leaders. The MD program has teaching opportunities to fit a variety of schedules and professional goals. Challenge yourself and inspire future generations.
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