Case is organ based and yes, they were the first school to implement it.
I agree and disagree with gleevec. I agree because in the end you'll learn the same thing no matter where you go for your first two years of med school so in that sense it is a small concern.
I disagree because after going through most of the MS1 curriculum at a traditional non organ based school, I cant count how many times my classmates and I wanted to scream out in frustration because the exact same topic was presented to us three different times in three different classes. Reptition is good for memory but after your physiology, biochem and neuroscience professors beat the same horse to death with different sticks, you realize why organ based is a good idea.
If you go to a non organ based schools, you'll learn about stuff out of context, and when you do learn the context later on in a different course, you'll say to yourself "wow, this wouldve made so much more sense if they told us the context the first time around". I can name literally thousands of instances where this happened, and I can testify that many of my classmates , med and grad students were frustrated by the disjointedness of the non organ based curriculum.
Of course learning style is important, so if you need reptition, traditional curriculum is probably better for you. It is hard to say what fits you until you try it, and by the time you try it its too late because you'll already be in school!
I will definitely write something about the pros and cons of the two after my MS1 year at Case. It'll be interesting to contrast it with my MS1 traditional curriculum at my grad school.
