Integrated Medical Curriculum

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The Class of 2005 began their medical training under a new curriculum. This Integrated Medical School Curriculum replaces the traditional departmentally based, lecture intensive, coursework of the past. This new milieu reduces contact hours and didactic teacher centered education with an emphasis on integration of the basic sciences, increased clinical relevance, and self-directed learning.

ANA-500-O GROSS HUMAN ANATOMY 6 credits; Fall semester.
Required course for freshman medical students. Dr. Hard and Staff. This course is designed to examine the nature and organization of the major, grossly visible structural components of the dissected human body. The course emphasizes the normal functions of the above components, particularly as these functions relate to clinical management of patients. The course is composed of lectures and demonstrations, laboratories, and clinical correlations. Lectures and demonstrations are given the Gross Anatomy staff. These involve a presentation of anatomical details along with general functions and aspects of clinical relevance. In the laboratory, pairs of students, under the guidance of the faculty, dissect and present the anatomical detail and general organization of assigned regions to the other students at their dissecting table. Additional study aids, such as radiographs, CAT-scans, motion pictures, and special dissections, are also made available. The order of dissection is designed to permit progressively greater correlation with microscopic and developmental anatomy as the course proceeds. Clinical correlations are also presented throughout the course to augment the material in each region. By the end of the course, the gross anatomy of the entire human body will have been surveyed. Experience gained by dissection should permit students to relate the more advanced anatomy of their interests to that of the human body as a whole, and to the interests of their colleagues, as in consultation or in presentation of patients.

IDM-520/521 CLINICAL PRACTICE OF MEDICINE (CPM) 4 credits; Fall/Spring semester.
Required course of freshman medical students. Dr. Andrew Symons. The Clinical Practice of Medicine is a two-year course that is designed to provide students with the fundamental knowledge and skills required in clinical practice. During the first year of this course, students learn basic skills that are essential for clinical medicine, including medical interviewing, the performance of a physical examination, and the medical write-up. Working in seminar groups and with community-based physicians, students will focus in the fall semester on developing patient-centered communication skills, and the challenges of medical interviewing. In the spring semester, continuing with seminar groups and preceptorships, the focus is primarily in developing physical examination skills. At the end of year one, there is a clinical competency examination where students demonstrate and confirm skill attainment. IMC-500 MEDICINE AND SOCIETY 2 credits; Fall semester; Required course for freshman medical students. Drs. Trevisan and Li. This foundation course for entering medical students begins the process of the study of medicine in an integrated curriculum. The student is exposed to issues regarding the role of the physician in society, followed by issues in the prevention of disease in a population. The student will acquire the lifelong skills to critically appraise and integrate the best evidence into clinical practice through the application of evidence-based medicine and the use of concepts underlying epidemiology and biostatistics. ________________________________________________________________
IMC-502 FUNDAMENTALS I: MOLECULES, CELLS AND MOLECULAR GENETICS 8 credits; Fall semester; Required course for freshman medical students. Drs. Ettinger, O'Brian, Campbell & Cotter. This required foundation module covers the fundamental structure-functional properties of proteins, cells, and genes. Basic mechanisms of signal transduction in response to neural, chemical and growth factor signals are also presented. ________________________________________________________________
IMC-504 FUNDAMENTALS II: UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES OF DISEASE 10 credits; Fall semester; Required course for freshman medical students. Dr. Reynard and Staff. This foundation block addresses basic issues of Biochemistry, Physiology, Pathology, Microbiology, etc. and their roles in health and disease. In conjunction with the other courses of the first semester, this course completes the underpinnings of basic science to enable students to begin an integrated system based curriculum.

IMC-510 INTEGRATED STUDY OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM AND METABOLISM: G.I. AND METABOLISM 10 credits; Spring semester;
Required course for freshman medical students. Drs. Michael Duffey, Alexander
Brownie and Michael Sitrin. This required system-based block integrates the basic sciences into the study of the gastrointestinal system and metabolism in both health and disease. Each of the basic science topics is incorporated into an integrated body of knowledge utilizing both didactic and self-directed learning methods, and clinical models.

IMC-512 INTEGRATED STUDY OF THE URINARY TRACT AND RENAL SYSTEM 6 credits; Spring semester; Required course for freshman medical students. Drs. James Lohr and John Krasney. This required system based block integrates the basic sciences into a study of the urinary tract and renal system in both health and disease. Each of the basic science topics is incorporated into an integrated body of knowledge utilizing both didactic and self-directed learning methods, and clinical models.

IMC-514 INTEGRATED STUDY OF THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM AND INTEGUMENT 4 credits; Spring semester; Required course for freshman medical students. Dr. Reid Heffner. This required system based block integrates the basic sciences into a study of the musculoskeletal system and integument in both health and disease. Each of the basic science topics is incorporated into an integrated body of knowledge utilizing both didactic and self-directed learning methods, and clinical models.

IMC-550/555, 650/655 INTEGRATED LEARNING 4 credits; Fall/Spring semester; First/Second year medical student. Dr. Heffner, et al. This course will allow for continued integration of the basic sciences and clinical medicine. Activities will be assigned by relevant faculty to enhance learning in the new curriculum.

IMC-600 INTEGRATED STUDY OF HEMATOLOGY 2 credits; Fall semester; Required course for sophomore medical students. Drs. Sands, Steinbrenner, Logue et al. This required course in hematology integrates the basic science knowledge of the blood and hematopoetic systems.

IMC-602 INTEGRATED STUDY OF THE HUMAN CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM 8 credits; Fall semester; Required course for sophomore medical students. Dr. Hogan and Staff. This course provides instruction into the mechanisms of operation of the human cardiovascular system. Emphasis is placed on the integration of relevant principles from anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, pharmacology and microbiology with respect to the behavior of the normal circulation and its responses to the stress of injury and disease. Both expert-directed and student-directed methodologies will be employed in this module and a select set of clinical cases will be used to guide instruction.

IMC-604 INTEGRATED STUDY OF THE PULMONARY SYSTEM 8 credits; Fall semester; Required course for sophomore medical students. Drs. Alan Saltzman and Linda Wild. This required system-based block integrates the basic sciences into a study of the pulmonary system in both health and disease. Each of the basic science topics is incorporated into an integrated body of knowledge utilizing both didactic and self-directed learning methods, and clinical models.

IMC-606 & IMC 610 INTEGRATED STUDY OF NEUROSCIENCE AND BEHAVIOR I & II 12 credits; Fall/Spring semesters; Required course for sophomore medical students. Dr. Cohan and Staff. This required system-based block integrates the basic sciences into a study of neuroscience and behavior in both health and disease. Each of the basic science topics is incorporated into an integrated body of knowledge covering neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurological correlations, neuropharmacology, neuropathology, human behavior and psychiatry, utilizing both didactic and self-directed learning methods and clinical models.

IMC-612 INTEGRATED STUDY OF THE ENDOCRINE & REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS & LIFE CYCLE 10 credits; Spring semester; Required course for sophomore medical students. Drs. Samuel Gallant, Alexander Brownie and Edmund Egan. This required system-based block integrates the basic sciences into a study of the endocrine and reproductive systems in both health and disease. Each of the basic science topics is incorporated into an integrated body of knowledge utilizing both didactic and self-directed learning methods, and clinical models.