Abstract
Abstract Objectives Integration of the basic medical sciences with clinical medicine motivates medical students by showing how the fundamental concepts they have learned will come into their future practice. In this context, we created clinical integration sessions (CIS) in our first-year medical curriculum. Methods The instructors of different disciplines wrote the clinical scenarios together. The scenarios were discussed in five sessions with 39 first-year students. The first session’s scenario consisted of four brief “anemia” cases. The next four sessions included a single case, according to the feedback of the students. Students formed groups of 7–8 participants. In the first 2 h, the scenarios were discussed in the groups and questions were answered by the students. In the third hour, the instructors answered the questions together with the students. After the first CIS, written feedback obtained from the students via a survey. Results The survey provided positive feedback on the benefits of active learning within small group discussions, and most of the students thought that their background was sufficient to solve the cases, with some literature search. Conclusion The scenarios, which provide multidisciplinary integration of basic medical sciences and clinical medicine, can be useful educational materials.
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ObjectivesIntegration of the basic medical sciences with clinical medicine motivates medical students by showing how the fundamental concepts they have learned will come into their future practice
In the Clinical Education of Medical Students Report on Millennium Conferences I & II by the years 2001 & 2002, it was emphasized that the basic sciences were fundamental to clinical medicine, and that the curriculum had to be designed to integrate basic science and clinical medicine throughout the four years of the medical school [2]
In 1985, Safran and Yeasting published how they had designed a course for the first-year medical students to demonstrate the association between biochemistry and physiology content of the curriculum and applications of clinical medicine
Summary
Integration of the basic medical sciences with clinical medicine motivates medical students by showing how the fundamental concepts they have learned will come into their future practice. In this context, we created clinical integration sessions (CIS) in our first-year medical curriculum. The scenarios were discussed in five sessions with 39 first-year students. In the first 2 h, the scenarios were discussed in the groups and questions were answered by the students. Results: The survey provided positive feedback on the benefits of active learning within small group discussions, and most of the students thought that their background was sufficient to solve the cases, with some literature search. Conclusion: The scenarios, which provide multidisciplinary integration of basic medical sciences and clinical medicine, can be useful educational materials
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