Explore Immersion

4 units

The EXPLORE Immersion is four weeks of dedicated time to (1) learn the foundations of scholarship through the Inquiry Curriculum and (2) gain knowledge and skills in the pathway you've selected. The EXPLORE immersion is also intended to be a time of personal growth and exploration, where students have flexible time to network, find mentors, or work on scholarly projects. All non-MST students will participate in both the Inquiry and Pathway components of the EXPLORE Immersion. The Inquiry Curriculum will prepare students to be responsible and impactful scholars in any of the four pathways. This curriculum purposefully builds upon content students have learned in prior modules, such as critical appraisal of research, thinking about systems of care and the health of populations and translation of evidence to patient care. This curriculum also revisits and builds upon content from Community Engagement and Patients, Physicians, Societies, and Systems in relation to scholarship. In the afternoons, student curriculum will depend on the Pathway they've selected to participate in. The Pathway Leads have designed curricula targeting the critical knowledge and skills needed for physicians to succeed in scholarly work and other career aspects of that Pathway. The Pathway curricula have also been designed to build upon both prior module content related to that Pathway and the Inquiry Curriculum, allowing students to see the connections between their respective Pathway and their training in the Gateway Curriculum. Since the Pathways represent smaller communities of students, it is our hope that the Pathways within EXPLORE will allow students to develop a network of both peers and faculty members with whom they may connect and grow with throughout their time here at WashU.