The Medical College of Wisconsin-Green Bay

The Medical College of Wisconsin-Green Bay is a 134-week, calendar-efficient medical education curriculum leading to the awarding of the MD degree. 

• Students are selected for the program based on academic and personal achievement, suitability for the campus mission of Primary Care, Psychiatry and General Surgery as well as a successful interview with the Regional Applicant Advisory Committee composed of physicians and community members in the northeast Wisconsin region.

• Students arrive 6 weeks earlier in the M1 year and the summer between M1 and M2 is also used for instruction (16 weeks instruction gained).

• The program includes early clinical skills introduction and clinical experience integration from matriculation to graduation.

• The curriculum includes the basic science Discovery Curriculum used on the Milwaukee campus and is augmented with clinical and community health curriculum. Objectives and assessments are the same, while the Digital Classroom is used to offer a robust bi-directional teaching and learning environment for the medical student.

• Active learning, case-based learning and local gross human anatomy are accomplished by leveraging local clinical faculty and basic science faculty developed from local universities with an emphasis on material relevance, maximized learning and retention and retrieval skills and an accelerated professional development that includes leadership, community engagement and consideration of population health topics relevant to clinical practice.

The initial cohort of 25 students matriculated July of 2015 at Green Bay. Students pay three-years of tuition and enter the workforce an entire year earlier. A second regional campus in the MCW system opens July 2016 in Central Wisconsin which includes a longitudinal clerkship curriculum variation.