Open AccessThe Fallacy of Teaching and the Illusion of Learning: Improving Articulation of Basic Science in the Medical School Curriculum
Author(s) -
Maria H. van Zuilen,
Jonathan England,
Daniel A. Sussman,
Amar R. Deshpande,
Alex J. Mechaber,
S. Barry Issenberg,
Mathias G. Lichtenheld
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medical science educator
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 13
ISSN - 2156-8650
DOI - 10.1007/s40670-020-01075-z
Subject(s) - curriculum , articulation (sociology) , fallacy , mathematics education , illusion , psychology , pedagogy , engineering ethics , engineering , political science , epistemology , neuroscience , politics , philosophy , law
Despite calls from educators to re-engineer how faculty deliver medical student curricula with integrated basic science concepts, this content is still frequently disarticulated from other curricular components. We renewed our curriculum using evidence-based pedagogical and cognitive learning strategies to interleave basic science across the 4-year curriculum.