What exactly is a systems based curriculum?

[Deuce 007 MD]

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I have a chance to choose schools with a traditional curriculum, a problems based curriculum, or a systems based curriculum. I have an idea of what the first two are about, but not much of an idea on the systems based one. Anybody know the pros and cons of this type of curriculum compared to the others, and which one would you prefer and why?

 

[RT]

System-based curriculum might be a variation of traditional curriculum. Students learn materials based on individual body systems such as the cell and organs that have similar structures and work together to perform some function, such as the nervous, respiratory, and digestive system. Classes are neither integrated nor interdisciplinary.

Rt

 

[lotanna]

I know wayne state university in Detroit does that. Supposedly its easier for students to understand it by doing it like that

 

[Deuce 007 MD]

I'm still not quit sure what systems based is. Is it like for example doing the circulatory system and you learn all about the heart, the vessels, the smooth muscle around the vessels, down to the bio chemistry of the heme group? In other words do you study the physiology, the bio chemistry, anatomy, and pathology of one system all at once and this is all you do?

 

[Carbon]

That's how I understand it, yes. You go by organ systems. So as you said, you'd work through vascular, then GI, then neurological, etc.
That's how I had physiology, and it was fine.