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
|
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
|
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