Title

Faculty Reflections On The Process Of Building An Integrated Preclerkship Curriculum: A New School Perspective

Keywords

Active learning; Curriculum integration; Medical education; Team process

Abstract

This is a reflective essay based on the experience of developing a structure and function module within a new integrated medical curriculum. Our hope is that the insights we gained during a 4-yr journey in a new medical school will be transferable to others engaged with curriculum development. Here, we present an interpretive analysis of our personal experiences together with some original research data and a synthesis of the literature. We will argue that a focus on teaching faculty is the key to successful curriculum integration and suggest an agenda for faculty development. Our essay begins by exploring what curriculum integration really means and what its purpose might be. Our case study explores the challenges of building a shared understanding among stakeholders and of negotiating learning outcomes and methods of teaching as well as the process of developing content and assessment. We feel that many of our experiences in the new medical school are applicable in other settings, such as curriculum reform in established schools and for developers of competency-based premedical curricula. We conclude with recommendations to assist other curriculum planners and teachers by offering some benefits of hindsight.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

Advances in Physiology Education

Volume

38

Issue

3

Number of Pages

199-209

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00055.2014

Socpus ID

84928990754 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84928990754

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