The WR2 Curriculum has 10 Guiding Principles:
- The core concepts of health and disease prevention are fully integrated into the curriculum.
- Medical education is experiential and emphasizes the skills for scholarship, critical thinking, and lifelong learning.
- Educational methods stimulate an active interchange of ideas among students and faculty.
- Students and faculty are mutually respectful partners in learning.
- Students are immersed in a graduate school educational environment characterized by flexibility and high expectations for independent study and self-directed learning.
- Learning is fostered by weaving the scientific foundations of medicine and health with clinical experiences throughout the curriculum. These scientific foundations include basic science, clinical science, population-based science, and social and behavioral sciences.
- Every student has an in-depth mentored experience in research and scholarship.
- Recognizing the obligations of physicians to society, the central themes of public health, civic professionalism and teamwork & leadership are woven through the curriculum.
- The systems issues of patient safety, quality medical care, and health care delivery are emphasized and integrated throughout the curriculum.
- Students acquire a core set of competencies in the knowledge, mastery of clinical skills and attitudes that are pre-requisite to graduate medical education. These competencies are defined, learned and assessed and serve as a mechanism of evaluation of the school's success.