gogo: new curriculum

[Jim Henderson]

How many allopathic schools use the regular lecture-based
cirriculum as opposed to the ones using organ system based
learning or even group learning (like at Harvard)? Also which
one is better, opinions please!

---

Members don't see this ad.

 

[drhenderson]

Most use a combined system, with didactic lectures and case/group
based learning. Rarely are there purely traditional schools or
pure case-based learning schools anymore. Historically, the pure
case-based learning schools don't score quite as high on the USMLE
as their counterparts... but who's gonna hold that against a
Harvard grad?


Thanks!


Jim Henderson, MD of Medicalstudent.net

 

[turtleboard]

I believe most medical schools these days have reorganized their curriculum around organ systems in a block manner rather than traditional Biochemistry, Physiology, etc., classes.

I'm not sure what learning in a traditional curriculum is like, but if it's anything like college, then I'm glad someone developed the organ systems approach! I'm going into my second day of lectures as a first-year and think it's a neat way to have the information sort of "pre-synthesized" for you.

Tim of New York City.