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Integrating gross anatomy into a case‐based curriculum at a new medical school (532.3)
Author(s) -
Szymik Brett,
Hesse DeLoris,
Tally Toby
Publication year - 2014
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.28.1_supplement.532.3
Subject(s) - gross anatomy , curriculum , general partnership , medical education , medical school , class (philosophy) , medicine , psychology , anatomy , pedagogy , political science , computer science , artificial intelligence , law
The Georgia Regents University / University of Georgia Medical Partnership is a newly‐formed medical school that will graduate its first class of students in 2014. The Medical Partnership operates under the auspices of the Medical College of Georgia (within Georgia Regents University) and is located on the University of Georgia’s Health Sciences Campus in Athens, GA. As with many medical schools, the Medical Partnership’s four‐year curriculum begins with two years of basic sciences education, after which students progress to clinical rotations for their third and fourth years. Gross anatomy is integrated throughout the Medical Partnership’s first‐year curriculum. The year is divided into six modules based on organ systems, and each week features a clinical case that students engage in a small group setting. Each Monday, students are presented with the week’s case, and they meet throughout the week in teams of eight students to progress through the case, guided by two faculty facilitators. Gross anatomy lectures, lab dissections, and self‐paced student activities are scheduled to align with and support the knowledge and concepts made relevant by the students’ weekly cases. Here we describe how gross anatomy is currently integrated into the case‐based framework of the Medical Partnership’s first‐year curriculum and the ways in which such an integrated curriculum is itself influenced by the logistics of gross anatomy lab dissections.