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The Accelerated Review Program (ARP) is designed for students who have the drive to become successful physicians but need additional academic and study skills support to ensure their success in the rigorous UMHS medical education program. UMHS believes that, with the right support, students, who have the passion to become physicians, can master the educational process to achieve their goal.
Program Goals
- Assist students with study skills that increase their opportunity to successfully complete the UMHS medical education program.
- Provide students with additional exposure and/or review in targeted courses.
- Reduce attrition once a student enters the UMHS medical school program.
- Increase student confidence in their ability to be successful academically.
Program Length
The Accelerated Review Program is a one semester program.
Student Selection
Students, who apply to UMHS and have met all minimum entrance requirements, will be considered for the Accelerated Review Program. The UMHS Admissions Committee will base their decisions for admittance to ARP on the student’s prior academic performance, the personal interview, and assessment of the student’s ability to successfully complete the UMHS medical education program and pass the United States Medical Licensing Examination, Steps 1 and 2.
Program Completion
GPA: To successfully complete the Accelerated Review Program, students must average a grade of 70% or above.
Program Results
Students, who succeed in the Accelerated Review Program, will automatically be accepted into the UMHS basic science first semester program at the St Kitts campus.
Program Site
The Accelerated Review Program will take place at the UMHS campus in St. Kitts. Students will have access to a learning resource center, library, study areas, and classrooms. The classrooms contain the latest teaching technologies, and all areas offer wireless Internet access.
Faculty
The Accelerated Review Program faculty is made up of specialists in the basic science areas who hold either M.D., Ph.D., or Master’s degrees.
Course Descriptions
ARP has two course components: Study skills and academic courses
Study Skills
Skill 1: Library/Technology Use
This module will cover the following topics:
- Plagiarism and Proper Citation
- Academic Honesty
Skill 2: Learning/Study Skills
The following topics are covered:
- Active and Passive Learning
- Active Review for Remembering
- Preparing for MCQ Exams
- Listening for Learning
- Reading for Learning
- Note Taking
- Levels of Learning (Bloom’s Taxonomy)
- Concept Mapping
Skill 3: Interpersonal/Intrapersonal Communication
This module covers the following topics:
- Professionalism in Health and Medicine
- Study Team
- Cultural Awareness and Appreciation
- Exam Anxiety
- Wellness
Skill 4: The Basics of Medical Terminology
This module covers the following topics:
- Using a Medical Dictionary
- Taking Terms Apart
- Word Roots, Suffixes, Prefixes
- Spelling and Pronunciation Does Matter
Academic Courses
The academic courses are designed to provide the student two academic components:
- A review of undergraduate courses that are critical in passing the curriculum offered in the University of Medicine and Health Sciences.
- Exposure to several of the 1st and 2nd year courses actually in the UMHS curriculum.
The academic curriculum will permit the student to demonstrate increasing ability to digest and retain the information presented. Each of the academic subjects will have a short quiz at the end of the presentation to permit faculty to evaluate progress and improvement.
Subjects presented will be in modular form. Not all listed subjects will be presented in any one semester, and new topics may be introduced at the discretion of the course Director.
Courses to be presented include, but not limited to:
Module I—College Review
Classroom sessions are held in Mathematics, Organic Chemistry and Critical Reading Review. This module is scheduled for two weeks but may be extended dependent on student performance.
Module II—Anatomy and Histology
The anatomy course examines principal structures of the human body. This is done in ARP with special relation to Histology and Physiology. A clinically oriented anatomical reference is also provided.
The Histology course covers basic elements of histologic structure of various organ systems as also clinical correlations to microscopic structure. A concise explanation of abnormal histology is also provided during the course. Relevant clinical correlation is emphasized.
Module III—Physiology
Mammalian Physiology will be presented to demonstrate cellular and organ system function. Faculty from Pathology and Microbiology will discuss how their topics intersect at both cellular and organ system levels of dysfunction to give the student of patholophysiologic or mechanism of disease understanding of both health and illness.
Module IV—Microbiology and Immunology
Fundamental concepts of both microbiology and Immunology are presented emphasizing the nature of mechanism of action of infectious agents. Understanding the host response by alteration of the immune system will emphasize the body’s ability to resolve clinical problems.
Module V—Ethics and Professionalism
Necessity for interaction with legal, religious, social and other forces to manage a patient will be taught using problem based learning. Several guest lecturers will be involved.
Module VI—Biochemistry
Biochemistry gives a comprehensive description and understanding of chemical structures and processes important in the human body. These principles are necessary for the medical practice and for learning biochemistry. The information also contributes to the learning of the needed basics of physiology, pathophysiology, pathology, pharmacology, numerous clinical topics and laboratory diagnostics.
Module VII—Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology/Genetics is a study of systems, mechanisms, and methods of molecular biology, genetic material—mutagenesis, replication, regulation, transcription, and translation—and its protein products and their biological functions. Principles and mechanisms of inheritance and variation will also be taught.
Foundations of Clinical Medicine
The objective of this course is to enable students to enhance the understanding and concepts of many of the topics being taught to them in the background of clinical learning. Clinical terminology is also taught to the students. The physical examination will be utilized to bring in broad knowledge of the Basic Sciences as they apply to clinical medicine. Patient-physician interrelationships are stressed. The course is taught in conjunction with the Anatomy and Histology component of the ARP course.
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