Abstract
Designing and conducting a two day orientation program for first semester undergraduate medical students.
Highlights
Dear editor Xavier University School of Medicine (XUSOM) is an offshore medical school in Aruba, Kingdom of the Netherlands admitting students from the United States (US), Canada and other countries to the undergraduate medical (MD) and the premedical program
A two day orientation program is offered to all first semester MD students from January 2014
In XUSOM like in most offshore Caribbean medical schools a semester of study is of 15 weeks duration and students are admitted three times a year in January, May, and September
Summary
Departments of Pharmacology, Xavier University School of Medicine, Aruba, Kingdom of the Netherlands. Dear editor Xavier University School of Medicine (XUSOM) is an offshore medical school in Aruba, Kingdom of the Netherlands admitting students from the United States (US), Canada and other countries to the undergraduate medical (MD) and the premedical program. The school shifted to a partially inte grated curriculum with the normal human subjects of anato my, physiology and biochemistry being learned during the first two semesters while the abnormal subjects of pathology, microbiology, pharmacology and introduction to clinical med icine are covered during the two semesters [1,2]. A two day orientation program is offered to all first semester MD students from January 2014. In XUSOM like in most offshore Caribbean medical schools a semester of study is of 15 weeks duration and students are admitted three times a year in January, May, and September. During the summer and fall 2013 semesters the institution had a one day orienta tion program and prior to that there was no formal orienta tion program
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