The Roseman University College of Medicine MD program

The Roseman Readiness Curriculum is competency-based and taught in active learning formats, which the school says require you to take charge of your own learning. Diagnostic and treatment skills are taught from the start, alongside basic science and health systems science, the study of how care is organized and delivered. The program is built around eight competency domains adapted from frameworks of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

The foundational phase has ten required courses, taken in a set order. Each of its seven Foundations blocks covers a group of organ systems, with basic science, clinical science, ethics and health systems science taught together. The content is mapped across the blocks so that every learning objective is covered without gaps or repeats. Objectives on ethics and justice are built into every pre-clerkship course, and nutrition is threaded through all phases.

Alongside the blocks, each foundational phase has a Clinical Practice course. It teaches history taking, communication, physical examination, documentation and clinical reasoning, plus topics such as social determinants of health (the living and working conditions that shape health), population health, quality improvement and patient safety. It runs through dedicated focus weeks of skills practice and one half-day a week for GENESIS, early patient contact and systems-based practice. Roseman physician faculty teach the clinical skills and supervise your GENESIS work.

Teaching moves to hospitals and clinics in the clerkship phase, but you still come back to campus. Each clerkship opens with an introductory week of teaching on that specialty. Advanced Clinical Practice 1 runs through the clerkship year with problem-based learning and GENESIS work, and Advanced Clinical Practice 2 adds a practice management curriculum in the advanced phase.

In the foundational phase, each week holds about 25 hours of assigned time, including the preparation you do for class sessions. One half-day each week is set aside for GENESIS, early exposure to patient care and systems-based practice, and some weeks are focus weeks for clinical skills. You are expected to attend all required sessions. Exams, clinical experiences and other core activities can be missed only with approval.

The Class of 2030's calendar shows the shape of year 1. After orientation and a White Coat Ceremony, Foundational Phase 1 runs from July 27 to December 18, 2026. Phase 2 runs from January 4 to June 25, 2027, with an independent study week starting March 29. A summer break follows until July 23.

In clerkships, the school's duty-hours policy limits your time. Averaged over four weeks, you work no more than 80 hours a week, including in-house call (time on call at the hospital). You also take call no more often than every third day and get one day in seven free. No continuous shift may exceed 24 hours, and you get 14 hours off between duty periods. Holidays depend on the clerkship and site.

Your first patient contact comes in year 1, through GENESIS. You provide household-centered care and home visits for your assigned households, supervised by Roseman physician faculty. Outreach workers assigned to each learning community recruit and manage the households and keep up relationships with the community partners that refer them. The curriculum page says GENESIS has recruited more than 140 households and involved more than 75 community partners.

GENESIS launched in March 2022 on the steps of Las Vegas City Hall, before the medical school opened. As a May 2025 school article described it, the households are medically underserved, and GENESIS tracks their social risks across nine areas, among them income, nutrition, housing, transportation and employment. A digital profile lets the team build care plans and track progress, and students, faculty and community health workers meet periodically in class to review them. The same article said GENESIS staff spoke English, Spanish, Tagalog, French and Haitian Creole.

In Foundational Phases 1 and 2, a preceptorship gives you early exposure to practicing clinicians in the local community. Full-time clinical work starts with the clerkship phase in January of year 2, after an orientation week. You may not care for any patient without faculty supervision: your supervisor is either with you throughout or on site and immediately available. You may take part in procedures only with the patient's consent and under direct supervision.

Courses in the foundational and advanced phases are graded pass/fail. The six clerkships are graded Honors, High Pass, Pass or Fail. Honors is for outstanding performance and High Pass for performance significantly above expectations, and both also need the set threshold on the clerkship's NBME subject exam. An NBME subject exam, often called a shelf exam, is a standardized end-of-rotation exam from the National Board of Medical Examiners. A failed course you later remediate shows on your transcript as Fail/Pass.

Course grades rest on competency on designated assessments and on faculty-written or nationally standardized exams designed to prepare you for NBME licensing exams. The school requires that you are given formative assessments, practice tests that give feedback without counting toward your grade. You must pass every course in a foundational phase to move on. The Medical Student Promotion and Review Committee (MedSPARC) reviews each student's progress during and between phases and rules on promotion, remediation and dismissal. The standard program is four years, and policy allows up to six.

You need at least 194 credits to graduate, and you must also pass promotional OSCEs (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations), which test clinical skills. Graduation also requires passing Step 1 and Step 2 CK of the USMLE, the national exam series for medical licensure in the United States. Step 1 tests whether you understand and can apply the sciences basic to medicine, and has been reported only as pass or fail for exams taken since January 26, 2022. Step 2 CK tests the medical knowledge, skills and clinical science needed to care for patients under supervision.

Here Step 1 comes after the core clerkships. The curriculum page says the clerkship phase ends with a promotional OSCE and dedicated study time, and that you must take Step 1 before entering the advanced phase and pass it to continue. The 2026-27 catalog also lists a 1-credit Review and Prep course for final Step 1 preparation among the advanced phase's required courses. Step 2 CK must be taken by September of the advanced phase.

In August 2026 the USMLE program announced a move to designated testing dates from January 2029, with Step exams offered less often each year. Its June 2026 announcement had named 2028. On the current schedule, a student entering on July 19, 2027 would finish the foundational phase around December 2028 and the clerkship phase around January 2030. Step 1 would then fall in early 2030 and Step 2 CK by September 2030, both after the switch. These are projections from the published phase lengths, not dates set for your class.

• Your Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE), the school's summary letter for residency applications, reports only if you are in the top quartile or the top half of your class.
• If you have had to repeat a foundational phase, you cannot repeat any later phase.
• Professional behavior is assessed throughout, and lapses can lead to a professionalism incident report and review by MedSPARC.
• Roseman's university-wide Six-Point Mastery Learning Model describes a 90 percent pass standard, and the catalog's grading rules apply it to pharmacy, nursing, dental medicine and graduate studies. The College of Medicine has its own scale, described above.

The school says a majority of southern Nevada's hospitals, hospital systems and inpatient mental health facilities have agreed to host its clerkship students. Together, it says, they reflect the region's geographic, ethnic and cultural diversity. Its partner list names 23 sites, grouped below, most of them in the Las Vegas Valley.

The sites cover many kinds of care. UMC, University Medical Center Southern Nevada, is listed by the school as a Level I trauma center. The list also includes a children's hospital, a VA medical center for veterans, a military medical center at Nellis Air Force Base and several psychiatric hospitals. Residents who teach you at these sites must take part in Roseman's Resident as Teacher training, which covers clerkship objectives and the list of required clinical encounters and skills.

The Office of Medical Education schedules the core clerkships, and students take them in different sequences. Roseman Medical Group, the College's clinic beside Spring Valley Hospital, expanded in 2026 to care for patients of all ages. Its medical director, who also directs the pediatrics clerkship, says the practice is integrating learners.

Electives come in both clinical phases. In the clerkship year you must take two elective weeks and can add up to three more, choosing from a list of specialty rotations you want to explore before the advanced phase. Clerkship-phase electives carry 1 to 5 credits, and 2 credits are required.

Most of the advanced phase is yours to choose: you need 34 elective credits, taken in 2- or 4-credit rotations in specialties and subspecialties that fit your interests and residency plans. The phase also has two required selectives of two weeks each, one in general or subspecialty neurology and one in urgent, emergency or critical care.

Under the school's supervision policy, clinicians who supervise you must hold a faculty appointment at Roseman or at a host institution in the Visiting Student Learning Opportunities (VSLO) program. VSLO is the AAMC's application service for away rotations, which are electives taken at other institutions.

The College of Medicine teaches in three buildings on Roseman's Summerlin campus at 10530 Discovery Drive, near the 215 Beltway: the Discovery Building, the Breakthrough Building and Innovation Hall. The campus also houses the College's research programs. The College has an anatomy lab, led by an anatomy lab director in the Department of Basic Sciences. A 2024 research symposium abstract by College faculty, written while the school was being set up, said the lab would combine plastinated human organs, anatomical models, simulators and virtual anatomy tools.

The Medical Simulation Center is a 12,000-square-foot facility with patient rooms for standardized patient encounters, clinical skills rooms and high-fidelity immersive simulation rooms, used across all four years. Its task trainers cover physical examination, venipuncture, central lines, lumbar punctures, airway management, pelvic and rectal examinations, catheterization and childbirth. Its manikins include SimMan 3G PLUS, the MamaAnne birthing simulator, SimJunior and SimNewB.

Outside class you can book practice time on the equipment through your clinical sciences faculty. You can also sign up through Canvas, the online course platform, for Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI), an American Heart Association program for building and keeping CPR skills.

The Medical Library is on the first floor of Innovation Hall, staffed from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Thursday and to 5 p.m. on Friday, with keycard access after hours and round-the-clock online chat. Its College of Medicine guide offers two 3D virtual dissection programs, Complete Anatomy and VH Dissector. It also lists Step 1 resources from ScholarRx and Pathoma, and the Sectra Educational Portal, which has real patient cases with CT and MRI images.

Personal lockers for laptops, medical equipment and white coats are in Innovation Hall near the Roadrunner Learning Community suites. College faculty research cancer, genetics, artificial intelligence, ethics and health policy, epidemiology and public health, and substance use disorder. The university's 64,400 square feet of research laboratories are open to faculty and students, with technician support.

Students belong to six Roadrunner Learning Communities, which combine student support and advising, clinical practice and community service learning. Each community's GENESIS households are run as a practice, with faculty physicians and outreach workers assigned to it, and specialty interest groups are open across communities.

Academic advisors in the Office of Academic and Career Advising each take primary responsibility for students in the learning communities, and act as both advisor and counselor. You must meet yours at least once per curricular phase to review your progress and draw up a study plan, and your advisor may contact you if your results slip. The office also offers tutoring and academic coaching, workshops on study skills and test-taking, and peer-assisted learning and study groups.

Counseling is free and confidential at the Medical Student Counseling and Wellness Center, whose licensed clinicians play no part in grading or promoting students. Primary care is available at Roseman Medical Group, where the providers for students include primary care nurse practitioners who do not teach or assess medical students. Appointments run on weekdays, and same-day walk-in visits are often available.

Career guidance comes from deans, department chairs, course and clerkship directors and advisors, an annual list of clinical faculty by specialty, and the AAMC's Careers in Medicine resources. The Medical Student Council, elected each year with representatives from every class, gives students a forum to raise concerns and shape their education. Students also feed into accreditation through surveys, course and clerkship evaluations, an independent student analysis and meetings with LCME survey teams.