Program Overview

MD Curriculum

The NYU Grossman School of Medicine offers an innovative and flexible MD degree curriculum known as the Curriculum for the 21st Century: Personalized Pathways, or C21. This program enables students to master the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in medicine and provides opportunities to customize their studies at designated points in their training.

Program Overview

C21 offers patient-centered and disease-focused training to help students make connections between basic science concepts learned in the classroom and their real-world clinical application. The curriculum is divided into three stages:

• Stage One: Preclerkship Curriculum
• Stage Two: Clerkship Year
• Stage Three: Individualized Exploration

Curriculum Structure

The three-year MD pathway allows students to complete their MD degree through three concentrated stages of foundational basic science concepts combined with foundational clinical skills, followed by a clerkship year combined with integrated clinical skills, and completed with individualized exploration in specialty and subspecialty areas of interest and advanced clinical skills.

Graduation Policies

Specific graduation policies can be found in the MD Student Handbook. The authoritative source for curriculum requirements is exclusively found at NYU Bulletins.

Related Programs

NYU Grossman School of Medicine also offers other programs, including:

• Dual MD/Master's Degrees
• Accelerated Three-Year MD
• PhD Degree
• MD/PhD Degree
• Postdoctoral Affairs
• MS in Biomedical Informatics
• Emergency Medical Technician Program
• MS in Genome Health Analysis
• Lerner Holistic Integrative Health Nursing Fellowship
• Pharmacy Residency Programs
• Pharmacy Technician Training Program
• Summer Undergraduate Research Program
• Surgical Technology Program
• WISE Program
• Continuing Medical Education

Research Areas

The school is involved in various research areas, including:

• Clinical Research
• Sponsored Programs Administration
• Regulatory & Compliance Resources
• Research Facilities
• Federal Work Study Program
• Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
• PhD Program
• MD/PhD Program
• MS in Biomedical Informatics
• MS in Genome Health Analysis
• Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Faculty and Students

The school has a strong focus on faculty and student development, with programs such as:

• Office of Professional Development
• Innovation
• Mentorship & Professional Development
• Professional Fulfillment & Wellbeing
• Health Technology
• Programs
• Health Tech Hub Team