“The way medical school works are typically for the first two years students are largely in the classroom and then subsequent two years largely in clinicals, but what we wanted to do is change that model,” said Dr. Gauri Agarwal, UM Miller School of Medicine’s associate dean of curriculum, “and work with them in the direction where the first year is really the foundational year where our students learn a lot of core scientific principles and then we go right into clinicals in the second year and have an early start in seeing patients, and in the third and fourth year continue to see more and more patients.”