Engineering/Medical Integrated Curriculum (ENGMEDIC)

Department of Biomedical Engineering

The Department of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering and the School of Medicine offer a joint, early selection program for the training of biomedical engineers interested in becoming physicians. Qualified sophomores will be admitted into the joint program, Engineering/Medical Integrated Curriculum (ENGMEDIC), which integrates some preclinical medical training with undergraduate engineering education. The early selection aspects of the program permit a decompression of the first year of medical school and avoid the expensive and stressful process of application to medical school.

ENGMEDIC is designed to effect a better educational transition from engineering and undergraduate studies to medical education; it is not designed to accelerate engineering or medical trainings. Students are registered at the College of Engineering while pursuing the BS in Biomedical Engineering degree, and at the School of Medicine while pursuing their post-baccalaureate medical education. This requires a total of eight years of combined study for those students without significant AP credits.

Biomedical engineering majors may apply to this program during the second semester of their sophomore year. Admitted students are guaranteed admission into the School of Medicine contingent upon successful completion of the program requirements. Applications and additional information can be obtained in the Undergraduate Programs Office (ERB 107) and from the Department of Biomedical Engineering (ERB 403).