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WrightCurriculum Class Quartile

WrightCurriculum Class Accolades

Students can earn accolades of academic distinction in three ways:

1. Excellence Across Foundations

  • An ‘Excellence Across Foundations’ designation for the Foundations years will be awarded to students who demonstrate sustained superior performance in the Foundations courses.
  • ‘Excellence Across Foundations’ shall be awarded to no more than 25% of the class*
  • Criteria for ‘Excellence Across Foundations’ can include final exam scores (including NBME final exams), OSCEs, and CBSEs
  • Exclusionary criteria: Students showing a pattern of behavior incongruent with the BSOM professionalism policy as documented within OSAA.

Excellence in Foundations will be determined by the following for the classes of 2025 and beyond:

Module final exams

  • Origins (12.25%)
  • Human Architecture I (7.33%)
  • Host & Defense (8.34%)
  • Staying Alive (12.25%)
  • Human Architecture II (7.33%)
  • Beginning to End (11.25%)
  • Balance, Control & Repair (11.25%)
 70%
Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) #1 Interviewing Final (Y1)** 5%
OSCE #2 Physical Exam Final (Y1)** 5%
OSCE #3 Simulated Patient Encounter Final (Y2)** 5%
Comprehensive Basic Science Examination (CBSE #2) (normed to class) 15%
** 90-100 = 100%, 80-89.99 = 90%, 70-79.99 = 80%, pass on second attempt = minimum passing score  

* For the classes of 2025 and 2026, Excellence in Foundations will be awarded to the top 25% of students according to the criteria for Excellence in Foundations above AND the top 25% using Foundations Quartile criteria below:

Comprehensive Basic Science Examination (CBSE) #1 7%
CBSE #2 10%

Module final exams

  • Origins (5%)
  • Human Architecture I (3.33%)
  • Host & Defense (3.34%)
  • Staying Alive (5%)
  • Human Architecture II (3.33%)
  • Beginning to End (5%)
  • Balance, Control & Repair (5%)
 30%
Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) #1 Interviewing Final (Y1) 12%
OSCE #2 Physical Exam Final (Y1)* 12%
OSCE #3 Simulated Patient Encounter Final (Y2)* 12%
Passing USMLE Step 1 on first attempt 17%
* 90-100 = 100%, 80-89.99 = 90%, 70-79.99 = 80%, pass on second attempt = minimum passing score  

2. Honors in Clerkship courses

  • To be eligible to receive Honors for a clerkship and Clinical Medicine Doctoring, students must consistently exceed expectations for professional behavior and clinical performance during the clerkship.

3. Excellence Across Clerkships in the Doctoring Year

  • Students who receive Honors in a clerkship/module will be submitted to the Director of Assessment by Doctoring clerkship/module directors at the end of each clerkship block/module
  • The Director of Assessment and Evaluation will compile a list of students who have been nominated for honors grades by one or more clerkships/modules, sorted by students who have been nominated for honors grades by the most clerkships/modules
  • Doctoring year clerkship/module directors will meet at the end of Doctoring to review the students who have been nominated by multiple clerkships/modules
  • An ‘Excellence Across Clerkships’ designation for the Doctoring year will be awarded to students who demonstrate sustained superior performance in the Doctoring year
    • ‘Excellence Across Clerkships’ in the Doctoring year shall be awarded to no more than 25% of the class
    • Exclusionary criteria: Students showing a pattern of behavior incongruent with the BSOM professionalism policy as documented within OSAA 

Approved by FCC on 6/28/2023

Revised and approved by FCC on 01/24/2024

Revised and approved by FCC on 08/27/2025