ARCHES features six elements longitudinally integrated into courses, clerkships, and electives throughout a four-year MD program that enhances conventional medical education with a whole-person approach to care.
The evidence-based ARCHES curriculum takes inclusive and collaborative approaches to care designed to promote resilience, prevent disease, and restore health.
This element of the curriculum focuses on the human dimensions of care by merging concepts from the humanities and arts with medicine. Students will explore the importance of effective advanced communication, observational and listening skills, ethics, professionalism, professional identity, and cultural aspects of healing. Students will learn about creative arts therapies and connect with the community through opportunities created by the School’s shared campus with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Curriculum Map
A closer look at how the ARCHES curriculum is integrated across our four year MD program.
