School and Mission
These two Fayetteville institutions partnered to establish the School of Medicine.
What are Methodist University and Cape Fear Valley Health?
This is the medical name for earwax.
What is cerumen?
This is the minimum MCAT score required for consideration.
What is 500?
Sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and this savory sensation make up the five basic tastes.
What is umami?
This many applications were received during the 2026 cycle.
What is 1,522?
A hiccup begins with an involuntary spasm of this breathing muscle.
What is the diaphragm?
These are the three phases of the medical school curriculum.
What are Foundation, Cornerstone, and Capstone?
This sedative used in dentistry is better known as “laughing gas.”
What is nitrous oxide?
Every student must complete this type of academic project.
What is a scholarly project?
This is the complete name of the medical school.
What is the Methodist University Cape Fear Valley Health School of Medicine?
Doctors may use the word “eructation” for this noisy release of stomach gas.
What is burping or belching?
Applicants must meet this minimum for both their total GPA and BCPM GPA.
What is 3.2?
Contrary to an old classroom diagram, different tastes are not limited to separate zones on this organ.
What is the tongue?
This was the average MCAT score for the 2026 cycle.
What is 512?
These tiny muscles pull body hairs upright when you get goosebumps.
What are the arrector pili muscles?
The Foundation phase covers these two medical school years.
What are MS1 and MS2?
This powerful toxin can reduce wrinkles and treat certain medical conditions by temporarily blocking nerve signals.
What is botulinum toxin or Botox?
Students complete their scholarly work with this faculty guide.
What is a faculty mentor?
The school’s mission places a special emphasis on improving health outcomes in this region.
What is southeastern North Carolina?
This medical word describes gas leaving the digestive tract from the opposite direction.
What is flatus?
Applicants must hold one of these two United States residency statuses.
What are United States citizenship or permanent residency?
When food tastes bland during a cold, reduced use of this sense is usually responsible.
What is smell?
This was the average total GPA for the 2026 cycle.
What is 3.67?
During this chilly reaction, muscles rapidly contract to help produce heat.
What is shivering?
This instructional model requires preparation before class and uses class time for case applications.
What is the flipped classroom model?
These blood-loving creatures may help relieve venous congestion after reconstructive surgery.
What are medicinal leeches?
Students present their scholarly projects at this school-based event.
What is an internal conference?
The mission describes graduates using these five qualities.
What are socially accountable, community-engaged, evidence-based, compassionate, and equity-focused?
Researchers examining 60 of these body parts discovered 2,368 types of bacteria.
What are belly buttons?
Applicants must earn this degree from a United States-accredited institution.
What is a bachelor’s degree or higher?
Taste receptor cells are replaced approximately this often.
What is every 10 days?
Applicant review begins in this month, followed by interviews beginning two months later.
What are July and September 2026?
Crying can make your nose run because tears drain through these ducts.
What are the nasolacrimal ducts?
This community-centered program is incorporated into the curriculum.
What is Empowering the 910?
These larvae can be placed on certain wounds to remove dead tissue while leaving healthy tissue largely unharmed.
What are medical maggots?
This scholarship supports the medical school’s first two cohorts.
What is the Cape Fear Valley Health Scholarship?
The partnership created the medical school to help address this workforce problem while reducing health disparities.
What is the physician shortage?
These microscopic, hair-like structures help sweep mucus and trapped debris through the respiratory system.
What are cilia?
Applicants need this many recommendation letters, and their latest accepted MCAT may be taken no later than this month.
What are three letters and October 2026?
In addition to the tongue, taste buds can also appear in these two locations.
What are the roof of the mouth and the throat?
These are the AMCAS and secondary application deadlines for the 2026 cycle.
What are November 16 and November 30, 2026?
This cranial nerve carries much of the pain sensation associated with brain freeze.
What is the trigeminal nerve?
The sample clinical schema begins with these two related patient presentations.
What are sore throat and rhinorrhea?
Commonly shortened to FMT, this treatment transfers screened intestinal microorganisms to help treat recurrent C. difficile infection
What is fecal microbiota transplantation?
These two military-related funding options appear in the presentation.
What are Yellow Ribbon and HPSP?