This framework affords students the intellectual, practical, and humanistic skills to promote and lead change processes aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. The master's curriculum, like the overall JMP approach, involves experiences that lead to transformation by centering inquiry, questioning dominant ideologies, and supporting the learner in the creation of new habits of mind and new points of view that result from deep reflection and emotional involvement. Their approach is 3 pronged: 1) structured mentorship for a master's project, 2) foundational courses in Public Health and Health Systems that support the student's project and contextualizes the practice of medicine 3) freedom to choose additional courses that support the student's project. Foundational Medical Sciences Fostering lifelong learning through curiosity and an inquiring mindset is a foundational tenet at the JMP. The “constructivist” approach of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is designed to promote independence in the student learning process while also developing the vital communication, teamwork, and clinical reasoning skills they will need as doctors. All the foundational medical sciences including the traditional basic biomedical sciences such as physiology, biochemistry, pathology, histology, pharmacology and the social and behavioral sciences as well, are presented through real patient cases. Clinical Skills and Placements The JMP Clinical Skills (CS) curriculum introduces JMP students to the fundamentals of clinical skills, the environments in which healthcare is delivered and the social structures and forces which affect them. Principles of antiracist care are integrated throughout the CS curriculum. The curriculum includes a focus on inter-professional education and teamwork. Coursework is designed to integrate with a wide variety of graduate classes that explore the structures and systems that affect health and health care including Critical Race Theory, Structural Competency, Motivational Interviewing, Systems Improvement and other clinically relevant studies through in-depth elective graduate classes offered by any department at UC Berkeley. References External links Official website University of California, San Francisco University of California, Berkeley University of California Medical education in the United States