42% Primary Care
42% of members of the Class of 2026 entered primary care residencies.
We have intentionally designed our MD program to provide the foundational skills that you will need as a physician. Our full-time faculty make your education their top priority. Our affiliated, partnering faculty will introduce you to best practices and a diversity of patient populations across a range of clinical locations.
At the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, our commitment to teaching patient-centered medicine underpins all that we do, and it begins with our name. Frank H. Netter, MD, was a physician and famed medical illustrator whose anatomy drawings became a staple of medical education because of their detail and sense of humanity.
As an educational institution that deeply values diversity of thought and experience, we believe in collaborative, inclusive scholarship that educates future physicians who not only treat the communities they serve, but also reflect them.
Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine is dedicated to a student-centered, collaborative environment that values compassionate care, integrity and inclusivity, academic excellence and scholarship, adaptability and social responsibility.
Our curriculum emphasizes early clinical exposure and is strengthened through our network of community hospitals and healthcare providers. Throughout all four years of medical school, students work closely with faculty mentors, career advisers and clinical faculty physicians from various medical settings who provide guidance on course selection, clinical experiences, fourth-year clerkships and residency planning. Students also strengthen their critical thinking and self-directed learning skills by completing a scholarly project under the guidance of a mentor through the Scholarly Reflection and Concentration/Capstone course (SRCC).
Our school is supported by clinical faculty from its principal clinical partners, Hartford HealthCare, St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport and Trinity Health, a national network whose regional flagship is Hartford's St. Francis Hospital, as well as a network of hospitals, medical centers, and physician practices across Connecticut. Beginning in their first year, students participate in biweekly clinical experiences in ambulatory primary care settings.
Through a variety of clinical placements and hands-on learning opportunities, students gain exposure to a wide range of specialties and practice environments, helping them identify the areas of medicine that best align with their interests and career goals.
The Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine will be a vibrant health care community that educates and nurtures compassionate physicians who promote wellness and patient-centered care for all members of society.
The Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine is dedicated to educating current and future physicians to serve our community, as well as our profession. We accomplish this goal in a student-centered, collaborative environment that values compassionate care, integrity and inclusivity, academic excellence and scholarship, adaptability and social responsibility.
Primary Care Education: providing education focused on partnering with patients to promote health as well as first-line care and chronic disease management.
Personal and Professional Integrity: achieving our highest potential as humans and healers by consistently acting with honesty and in accordance with strong moral values.
Academic Excellence: creating a stimulating, student-centered environment that supports both learners and faculty to excel in their scholastic activities.
Inclusiveness: fostering an inclusive community in which all students, faculty, staff and patients are respected, valued and supported.
Compassion and Patient-Centeredness: putting the patient at the center of the healthcare experience.
Health Access and Outcomes: advancing access to high-quality care for all patients and improving health outcomes for individuals and communities, locally and globally.
Scholarship: advancing the field of medicine by promoting discovery, application, integration and dissemination of knowledge throughout one’s career.
Interprofessional Collaboration: promoting teamwork between disciplines and across institutions to deliver high-quality care.
Community Partnership: developing learning and service opportunities that improve the health of our community.
Social Responsibility: advocating to improve the broader determinants of health in the setting of finite resources.
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As a learning community, our faculty and staff are deeply committed to educating the world’s future physicians. Our leadership supports, delivers and models this fundamental mission every day, from our senior associate deans and associate deans to our assistant dean and 12 department chairs. Together, they help to build the Netter School’s guiding helix of medicine, compassion and humanity.
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Born in Manhattan in 1906, Netter began his life with artistic aspirations, and by his late 20s was a successful commercial artist whose work appeared in national magazines. His family, however, urged him to pursue a more stable and respectable profession, and he abandoned his artwork to study medicine at New York University Medical College.
As a medical student, Netter drew as a means to study, producing visual representations of class notes that enabled him to understand and recall material. After graduation and a brief practice as a general surgeon, he traded his scalpel for a paintbrush and enjoyed a prolific career as a medical illustrator for pharmaceutical companies.
The Ciba Collection of Medical Illustrations, a 13-volume set of Netter’s work, earned a place in libraries and clinics across the country. In 1989, he published his eponymous “Atlas of Human Anatomy,” which has been translated into at least 11 languages and is widely used by undergraduate medical students.
With his exceedingly rare combination of artistic talent and perspective as a physician, Netter brought his subject matter to life with stunning precision and clarity. As his acclaim grew, he found himself invited to illustrate cutting-edge medical advancements, ranging from organ transplantation and joint replacement to the first artificial heart.
Netter’s legacy transcends his life’s work. Barbara Netter and her late husband, Edward (Frank Netter’s first cousin), paid tribute to “Medicine’s Michelangelo” in the naming of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University.
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