The program itself runs for six weeks. It begins on a Sunday evening with dinner where the students meet the faculty, staff, and tutors who will accompany them during their intensive studies. The four classes meet for fifty minutes every day of the week, except Wednesday and weekends, with a ten minute break between classes. After lunch in the school cafeteria, a variety of programs are scheduled for the afternoons. Evenings are usually spent hard at work completing class assignments.
Tutors also hold study sessions for interested students.
Weekends may find the students anywhere from lounging around campus to canoeing in Hattiesburg, not to mention putting the finishing touches on research projects. After final exams on the last Wednesday of the program, students go on a trip to an important landmark in the health professions. The trip was topped of with a visit to Six Flags Great Adventure before returning to Tougaloo College. Every year the tutors organize a student tallent show which is put on the Saturday evening before the last day of the program. Family, friends, faculty, staff and students attend and enjoy this more frivolous side of the students after the hard work has been put behind them.