Our Distinctive Characteristics
Small Class Size, Low Student to Faculty Ratio
Our selective admissions process affords students with one of the lowest student to teacher ratios in the region. With lectures and labs conducted in small groups, each student is offered a unique level of personal attention. Our Faculty is easy to access and provides supplemental instruction to students as needed with individual tutors and learning resources to ensure that students completing the Foundation of Medicine program and the Advanced Introduction to Clinical Medicine are fully prepared to take their place along side students from US medical schools for their clinical training.
Hear how current Trinity students have benefitted from choosing a small school for their Doctor of Medicine degree program by viewing the video here.
Affiliation with a Teaching Hospital
Trinity School of Medicine is fully integrated with Milton Cato Memorial Hospital in Kingstown, St. Vincent. This 220-bed teaching hospital and its staff have over 30 years of experience working with and training medical students in clinical medicine. The teaching hospital provides a formal and structured setting for the clinical training that takes place in terms one through five. From the very first week of the Doctor of Medicine degree program, students are be exposed to the clinical relevance of basic sciences content and, through a clinical applications module that follows, several complex case studies as they develop. Subsequently, case studies will be integrated into courses throughout the 2nd year and in a capstone course that serves as the Advanced Introduction to Clinical Medicine in term five.
Formal Step 1 Test Preparation Program
Trinity School of Medicine provides a formal USMLE Step 1 preparation program above and beyond the five-term Foundations of Medicine. The review program combines comprehension, retention and application and provides techniques to ensure that concepts are understood and retained by students. At the conclusion of each term, the program reinforces the most frequently tested USMLE concepts taught in the given term and shows students how to apply what they are learning, as they are learning.