Integration of Microbiology, Pharmacology, Immunology, and Infectious Disease Using Active Teaching and Self-Directed Learning.

Active learning Basic sciences Co-teaching Flipped classrooms Integrated curriculum Problem based learning Self-Direceted learning Self-regulated learning

Journal

Medical science educator
ISSN: 2156-8650
Titre abrégé: Med Sci Educ
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101625548

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Mar 2019
Historique:
entrez: 30 8 2021
pubmed: 18 1 2019
medline: 18 1 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

In an era of decreasing basic science curriculum at medical schools, we sought to re-imagine how to optimally deliver three core basic science disciplines (microbiology, pharmacology, and immunology) together with infectious disease in a 5-week course. This course, developed as part of a new 1-year pre-clinical basic science curriculum at the recently established Dell Medical School (DMS) at the University of Texas at Austin, featured a fully integrated curriculum in which the majority of the sessions were team-taught. This course, in line with the goals and missions of DMS, presented material using primarily self-directed and active learning approaches. Here, we describe the format and content of the course. We present our strategy and rationale for selecting these particular learning modalities and topics for pre-class and in-class coverage, using educational and cognitive psychology literature as a guide. We also discuss how, based on feedback from both student evaluations and performance data, the course evolved over the first two iterations.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34457482
doi: 10.1007/s40670-018-00689-8
pii: 689
pmc: PMC8368113
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

315-324

Informations de copyright

© International Association of Medical Science Educators 2019.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Conflict of InterestThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Natalie Steinel (N)

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA USA.

Gregory C Palmer (GC)

Institute of Environmental Sustainability, Loyola University, Chicago, IL USA.

Emily Nowicki (E)

Department of Science and Math, Curry College, Milton, MA USA.

Ernestine Lee (E)

Department of Population Health, Division of Family Medicine, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX USA.

Elizabeth Nelson (E)

Department of Medical Education, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX USA.

Marvin Whiteley (M)

College of Sciences, Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, GA USA.

Michael W Lee (MW)

Department of Medical Education, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX USA.
Department of Oncology, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX USA.
Live Strong Cancer Institutes, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX USA.
Department of Medical Education and Live Strong Cancer Institutes, The University of Texas at Austin, Health Learning Building, 1501 Red River Street, MC: 0100, Austin, TX 78712 USA.

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