U of Colorado Expands Popular Mini Med School To Cover Clinical Years

Want to go to medical school but don't want to put in the clinical hours or take tests?

The University of Colorado popular "Mini Med School," a program that has been replicated across the country, is expanding this winter to cover the clinical years.

Now, the free, eight-week program gives participants an overview of medicine -- without the homework, tests or degree. (Though participants who attend five of the seven sessions get a "diploma.")

"Mini Med School part 2: The clinical years" will be a pilot program and offered at the Anschutz Medical Campus only. The program, which will also follow an eight-week format, will not be simulcast to distance sites -- like the original Mini Med School has been in past years. But if it goes well, the program will be offered at satellite locations like Boulder.