Decelerated MD Program

The Decelerated Program enables selected students to spread the highly compressed work of the first year of the MD program over two years. Applicants are invited to enter this program if, in the view of the Admissions Committee, they show great promise but present cause for concern because of weaknesses or aberrances in academic preparation. Typical examples would be an applicant with relatively low or inconsistent grades or MCAT scores, or a long period intervening between completion of undergraduate work and application to medical school. If in the view of the Admissions Committee there is a reasonable expectation that the student's preparation for the remainder of the program would be strengthened by deceleration in the first-year program, the student may be invited into the program. Courses are taken with students in the four-year program. To continue beyond the first year, five-year program students must achieve grades not lower than one standard deviation below the mean for all medical students in each course of more than two credits.