RVU MSBS has continued achieving new heights in medical education during the recent remote learning era. While many programs and courses have regressed in content delivery and assessment, RVU MSBS is excelling. Courses are being delivered using multiple modalities, including:
- live streaming lectures,
- pre-recorded lectures combined with faculty-facilitated application sessions,
- remote service-learning projects,
- team-based learning using state-of-the art team learning software.
Students are participating in Virtual Reality Simulations and debriefing their experiences in small groups with clinical faculty, continuing learn how foundational sciences and humanities are applied in the real world.
As the rigors of being a successful healthcare student and future healthcare provider have only gotten harder during this season, the MSBS Program has strived to make learning more effective, rather than relaxing standards on student assessment.
To date, the Class of 2021 has demonstrated comparable knowledge and skills to past cohorts. RVU-MSBS students are continuing to gain the knowledge and skills that make them some of the most successful healthcare students in the country.
COVID-19 Response
As a medical institution, Rocky Vista University considers the health and safety of the student, faculty, and staff the top priority. As such, all decisions regarding educational instruction will be considered through the lens of health and safety; for this reason, RVU MSBS has been virtual for the 2020-21 school year. For the 2021-22 school year, RVU is optimistic that, with the current vaccine schedule for both campuses, classes will allow for a return to campus in the fall of 2021; however, the possibility exists that classes will remain virtual. Whether courses will return to campus for the fall will be decided upon in April of 2021.
