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Effective Strategies for Integration of Basic & Clinical Neuroscience: A Clerkship Director Leads the Charge!
Author(s) -
Lynn Joanne
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.24.1_supplement.63.2
Subject(s) - curriculum , medical education , neurology , clinical neurology , core curriculum , clinical neuroscience , neuroscience , medicine , psychology , pedagogy
The Neural Science Block at The Ohio State University College of Medicine is a 12 week interdisciplinary module that integrates basic and clinical science material across multiple disciplines (anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, radiology, pathology, neurology, psychiatry, ophthalmology, ENT). Our preclinical neuroscience course spans the last nine weeks of the first year and the first three weeks of the second year. Challenges related to the positioning of a neuroscience course at the end of the first year will be discussed. A major purpose of the preclinical course is to prepare students with the prerequisite knowledge and skills to optimally learn from the clinical experiences of third year neurology and psychiatry clerkships as well as from neuropsychiatric patients seen in other clinical rotations. The general features of U.S. neurology clerkships as detailed by a Consortium of Neurology Clerkship Directors (CNCD) survey will be described with additional comments about combined neurology/psychiatry clerkships. The CNCD Neurology Clerkship Core Curriculum Guidelines will be reviewed to give familiarity with the objectives of the clerkship. Special attention will be given to basic science topics that should be emphasized in preclinical neuroscience courses as preparation for clerkships and optimally revisited during the clerkship because of relevance to core clinical topics.