Discovery Pathways Program

The Business and Innovation in Medicine track is vital to providing UF students with the insights and tools to recognize and pursue improvement opportunities and medical inventions.

This pathway is designed to help students answer the following crucial questions:What works? For which patients or populations? Under what circumstances?

Students will gain an understanding of the environmental, social, cultural, political, economic and health system determinants of the health of individuals and population groups both in the US and abroad.

Designed to expose students interested in education and academic medicine to the scholarship of teaching and learning in a medical/clinical environment.

The Discovery Pathway in Medical Ethics and Law is a formal track in the University of Florida College of Medicine curriculum designed to provide students with a more in-depth look at legal and ethical issues in patient care and/or research.

Students who complete the Medical Humanities Pathway will understand the breadth of medical humanities and how the humanities are used in medical practice, medical education, healthcare, and in the larger societies.

An experiential course to learn the science and practice of several mind-body practices such as meditation, guided imagery, autogenic training, breath work, art, music, and movement.

The Patient Advocacy Track allows a deeper dive into the experience of patients as they navigate the structures of the healthcare system and attempt to carry out the demands of this system in their daily lives.

The Patient Safety and Quality Track is intended to prepare students to participate in one of the key trans-formative movements in American healthcare.

Clinical research is one of the cornerstones for understanding how to best treat patients and what works better in certain situations. It is somewhat ideally suited for a project that can be completely done in the summer and can result in a national presentation and a publication as well.