Mission Statement

The School bases its Doctor of Medicine program upon the philosophy that the education of physicians requires a total commitment on the part of all involved: the administration, the faculty and the students.

The primary function of the School is twofold:

To provide a medical curriculum designed to prepare highly competent students with:
- The intellectual and technical expertise necessary for the practice of medicine in the public and private sectors.
- The skills essential for expanding upon and improving existing health care delivery systems.
- The desire to pursue a lifetime of growth within the medical profession to better serve both the public and the profession, as well as to promote the highest ideals of the medical profession.
To improve the health care standards and delivery systems in Grenada, the greater Caribbean and other developing nations through educational and service programs which has provided an education for over 100 physicians.

The curriculum is not merely a collection of courses; it is a series of integrated educational experiences that facilitate growth toward a specific goal. These experiences develop the student’s capacity for self-directed and self-motivated learning that will continue throughout a lifetime as a practicing physician.

Goals

The goals of the curriculum at St. George’s University School of Medicine are:

To provide each student with the information core essential to all practicing physicians.
To provide each student with the knowledge and experience necessary to advance both scientifically and humanistically in the care and treatment of sick persons.
To emphasize the mastery of basic competencies necessary for postgraduate training.
To encourage students to assume responsibility for their own continuing education, thus diminishing dependency on the teacher as a sole source of information and forming the basis for the self-motivated study necessary for the practicing physician’s lifelong expansion of knowledge.
To encourage students to develop a logical approach to the analysis and management of clinical problems.
To expose students to medicine as practiced throughout the world and to provide them with the experiences necessary for the practice of medicine in developing countries.
To create awareness of the preventive aspects of medicine, of the importance of health education in the community and of the role of the physician as a health educator.