The decision, made by the school's board of directors, was announced at Tyson's memorial service in San Francisco.

[10] Tyson drove Kaiser Permanente to increase its investment in addressing the social factors that influence health, including supporting affordable housing, food security, clean air, safe recreational space, and the reduction of gun violence.

It has one of the highest ratios of applications to available spots among all U.S. medical schools, with the resulting percentage of 0.5 percent for the 2021-22 admission cycle, the lowest in the US.

[13] Applications are accepted from U.S. citizens, permanent residents of the U.S. (green card holders), and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients .

[14] The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine's main campus is in Pasadena, California, a city within Los Angeles County.

In their first two years, students complete a LIC at one of the six Kaiser Permanente medical centers in greater Los Angeles.

In this course, students will meet regularly with an assigned physician-coach and engage in self-reflection and goal setting to explore their developing professional identity as a future physician.

Students work in federally qualified health centers to augment classroom learning in the first two years of the curriculum.

Instead, students use tools such as pre-dissected human cadavers preserved by plastination, augmented and virtual reality systems, and diagnostic imaging modalities.

[24] The Department of Biomedical Science teaches students the biological knowledge that underlies the development of clinical reasoning and decision making.

[25] The Department of Clinical Science teaches the foundational skills physicians need to deliver care within a healthcare system.