The Yale School of Medicine takes a unique approach with a flexible curriculum that heavily emphasizes student self-directed learning.
Despite the freedom of its curriculum, Yale remains one of the hardest medical schools to get into. It draws over 6,000 applications for about 100 seats (≈1.6 percent acceptance), thanks to its global prestige.
Yale’s program gives students considerable freedom to chart their own path and requires every student to complete an original research thesis before graduation.
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