The school received preliminary accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) in February 2019. The school will waive all tuition and fees for the full four years of medical school for its first five classes. The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine was renamed from the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine in November 2019 in honor of late Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO Bernard J. Tyson. The decision, made by the school's board of directors, was announced at Tyson's memorial service in San Francisco. Tyson drove Kaiser Permanente to increase its investment in social determinants of health, including supporting affordable housing, food security, clean air, safe recreational space, and reducing gun violence. The school began accepting applications in the spring of 2019 for the 2020 application cycle. Following submission of the Primary Application through AMCAS (The American Medical College Application Service), all eligible applicants are invited to complete the school’s Secondary Application. Select applicants are invited to interview. The school uses a hybrid interview model consisting of the Multiple-Mini Interview (MMI) and a traditional one-on-one interview with a faculty member. The school uses a holistic review process. The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine's main campus is in Pasadena, California, a city within Los Angeles County. The school will occupy a new four-story building designed to support student wellness and the school's collaborative curriculum. Clinical training will primarily take place at six Kaiser Permanente medical centers in the greater Los Angeles area. The six clinical sites are Downey Medical Center, Fontana Medical Center, Los Angeles Medical Center, Panorama City Medical Center, South Bay Medical Center, and West Los Angeles Medical Center. In their third and fourth years, students will have the opportunity to learn at clinical sites in other parts of California and other regions across the country. Additionally, there will be service-learning curricula at federally qualified health centers near each clinical site. The school provides a small group, case-based curriculum with a spiral progression. Coursework integrates Biomedical, Clinical, and Health Systems Sciences. Students begin clinical immersion experiences in their first year. The Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) model restructures the student’s and patient’s experience of caregiving in six core clerkship specialties (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Surgery) by eliminating traditional block rotations. Instead, students follow panels of patients over time and maintain a longitudinal relationship with their preceptor.