Our Approach to Education

At Trinity School of Medicine, our approach is to model our programs after US medical curricula and teaching principles.

Faculty Approach

• The integration of the basic and clinical sciences throughout the five terms of the Foundations of Medicine, utilizing our relationship with Milton Cato Memorial Hospital and its clinics on St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
• Provide students with the skills, knowledge and attitudes they will need to practice patient-centered medicine in the world of tomorrow.
• The incorporation of and adherence to established learning principles.
• Constantly improve our curriculum so that it responds to and incorporates changes in medical knowledge and practice.
• Embrace and incorporate the values of the medical profession.

Student Learning Approach

1. Define course objectives.
• Construct courses to focus on a learning objective that includes a plan that will guide students to the mastery of said objective.
• Utilize the appropriate tools to ensure that students meet the required objectives.
• Administer exams that assess student preparation, participation, critical thinking skills and knowledge application.
• Evaluate each student's capability to demonstrate problem solving and professionalism.
2. Small Group setting
• Provide multi-disciplinary Problem Based Learning (PBL) cases in all courses.
• Maintain small group sessions consisting of PBL, laboratories, conferences, seminars, and computer-assisted learning, which complement full class overview lectures.
3. Clinical Exposure
• Begin clinical exposure in the first week of medical school and continue through the basic sciences terms.
• Develop clinical skills.
• Track cases throughout the term that build upon content knowledge being mastered in the basic sciences.