St. Matthew 's curriculum focuses on understanding the human body in health and disease. The curriculum is designed to help students integrate their knowledge of the basic, clinical, and social sciences and to relate this knowledge to their understanding of the disease process. Lecture, laboratory, and small group formats are used. Throughout the five semesters, students participate in a series of clinical medicine courses that focus on the art of patient care. Topics include basic life support, nutrition, patient interviewing, history taking, and physical examination as well as segments on a variety of psychosocial factors in health and disease.
Program relies heavily on interdisiplinary assimilation of field research and classroom discussion.
Based at Mystic Seaport, the world's largest Maritime Museum, students live in cooperative houses and have complete access to all Seaport resources including research vessels and all types of watercraft. Students receive credit from Williams College, research papers are frequently published in academic journals. Doctor in Medicine. The Universidad de Costa Rica offers a full range of university studies and programs in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, engineering, and health. It has a total of nine colleges, five of which are divided into 47 schools.