Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine

The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine is an allopathic medical school associated with the Kaiser Permanente health system and located in Pasadena, California. The school is expected to matriculate its inaugural class of 48 students in July 2020. In November 2019, the school was renamed in honor of late Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO Bernard J. Tyson.[1]

Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
TypeAllopathic private medical school
Established2020
Parent institution
Kaiser Permanente
DeanMark Schuster
Location
Pasadena, California
,
California
,
United States
CampusSuburban
Websitemedschool.kp.org

Kaiser Permanente created the school to train “future physicians in 21st century medicine.”[2]  The school plans to use modern educational techniques and integrate the three disciplines of clinical, biomedical, and health system science in each week’s curriculum. The school will also emphasize equity, inclusion, and diversity; service learning; student wellness; advocacy and leadership; interprofessional collaboration; and global health in its curricular experiences.[3]

History

Kaiser Permanente announced its plan to start a medical school in December 2015.  Kaiser Permanente's vision for the school is to redesign physician education around the themes of patient-centered care, population health, quality improvement, team-based care, and health equity.[4]  Kaiser Permanente has long been involved in graduate medical education: Kaiser Permanente's first independent residency program began in 1944, and it currently trains over 600 residents each year.[5]

In 2017, Mark Schuster, M.D., Ph.D., was named the medical school's founding dean and CEO. Schuster conducts research on child, adolescent, and family health and previously served as the William Berenberg Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and chief of general pediatrics and vice chair for health policy in the Department of Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital.[6]

The school received preliminary accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) in February 2019.[7]  The school will waive all tuition and fees for the full four years of medical school for its first five classes.[8]

Renaming

The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine was renamed from the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine in November 2019 in honor of late Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO Bernard J. Tyson. The decision, made by the school's board of directors, was announced at Tyson's memorial service in San Francisco.[9] Tyson drove Kaiser Permanente to increase its investment in social determinants of health, including supporting affordable housing, food security, clean air, safe recreational space, and reducing gun violence.[10]

Admissions

The school began accepting applications in the spring of 2019 for the 2020 application cycle.  Following submission of the Primary Application through AMCAS (The American Medical College Application Service), all eligible applicants are invited to complete the school’s Secondary Application. Select applicants are invited to interview.  The school uses a hybrid interview model consisting of the Multiple-Mini Interview (MMI) and a traditional one-on-one interview with a faculty member. The school uses a holistic review process.[11]

Facilities

The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine's main campus is in Pasadena, California, a city within Los Angeles County. The school will occupy a new four-story building designed to support student wellness and the school's collaborative curriculum.[12]

Clinical training will primarily take place at six Kaiser Permanente medical centers in the greater Los Angeles area.  The six clinical sites are Downey Medical Center, Fontana Medical Center, Los Angeles Medical Center, Panorama City Medical Center, South Bay Medical Center, and West Los Angeles Medical Center.  In their third and fourth years, students will have the opportunity to learn at clinical sites in other parts of California and other regions across the country.[13]  Additionally, there will be service-learning curricula at federally qualified health centers near each clinical site.[14]

Curriculum

The school provides a small group, case-based curriculum with a spiral progression.  Coursework integrates Biomedical, Clinical, and Health Systems Sciences. Students begin clinical immersion experiences in their first year.[15]

Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships

The Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) model restructures the student’s and patient’s experience of caregiving in six core clerkship specialties (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Surgery) by eliminating traditional block rotations. Instead, students follow panels of patients over time and maintain a longitudinal relationship with their preceptor.[16]

In their first two years, students will complete a LIC at one of the six Kaiser Permanente medical centers in greater Los Angeles.

Student Wellness

The medical school plans to emphasize student wellness and is providing academic support, coaching, fitness spaces and equipment, health coverage, mentoring, and personal counseling to all students. In addition to those resources, students will be required to take a course that covers personal and professional development. In this course, students will meet regularly with an assigned physician-coach and engage in self-reflection and goal setting to explore their developing professional identity as a future physician.  

Service-Learning

Students will work in federally qualified health centers to augment classroom learning in the first two years of the curriculum.[17]

Anatomy Without Cadavers

The school will teach anatomy without cadavers.  Instead, students will use tools such as pre-dissected human cadavers preserved by plastination, augmented and virtual reality systems, and diagnostic imaging modalities.[18]

Scholarly Project

Students will also complete an independent scholarly project within their first three years at the school. Students can choose what type of project to pursue based on their interests. Example options include biomedical science research, a community-partnered project, health services research, medical education research, and a quality improvement project. An optional advanced scholarly project is available as well.[19]

Departments

The school has three academic departments: biomedical science, clinical science, and health systems science. The departments’ highest priority is education, and they also conduct research.[20]

Biomedical Science

The Department of Biomedical Science will teach students the biological knowledge that underlies the development of clinical reasoning and decision-making.[21]

Clinical Science

The Department of Clinical Sciences will teach the foundational skills physicians need to deliver care within a healthcare system.  Clinical Science includes preventing, diagnosing, and treating health conditions and disease and optimizing health for each patient.[22]

Health Systems Science

The Department of Health Systems Science (HSS) will teach students about systemic factors within and beyond clinical care that affect health by providing a foundation in safety, quality, and value; healthcare structures and processes; community and population health; and health policy, equity, and service.[23]

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