SUNY Downstate College of Medicine Curriculum Renewal

There will be three phases of the Curriculum Renewal Process:

• Fall 2008 to Summer 2009, Initial Recommendations for Direction of New Curriculum - Completed
  • Committees and working groups generate reports for Document One, A Proposal for Curriculum Renewal. This document is an exploration of Integration, Relevance, Collaboration and medical school competencies and models of curriculum and sets the basis for the next development phase. Click here for a link to this document.
• Fall 2009 to Summer 2010, Specific Recommendations of Detail for New Curriculum
  • Building on the findings of Document One, A Proposal for Curriculum Renewal, work committees will meet to further define our draft competencies, define a structure by which to teach basic science and clinical medicine developmentally over the entire four years of the curriculum, and identify faculty development and resource needs. A two day integrative retreat will be held in the spring that will bring all the work of these groups together in order to further shape our new curriculum and make recommendations to the Dean. These recommendations will be specific enough that detailed curriculum development can now take place.
• Summer 2010 to Spring 2012, Detailed Planning Phase and Material Development
  • Work begins on making the organizational transitions needed to support the new curriculum and detailed course design.
• Summer 2010 to Summer 2011
  • Work begins on making the organizational transitions needed to support the new curriculum and detailed course design
• New Curriculum begins for incoming August 2012