Integrating anatomy teaching into the clinical medicine clerkship

Integrating ultrasound technology into teaching gross anatomy: point of order!

U ltrasound (USS) or ultrasonic imaging is now a mature technology having a well-established place in clinical practice and accounting for about one in four of all imaging procedures worldwide (1). More recently, USS has become the latest noninvasive method of morphological study to aid or supplement the teaching of gross human anatomy in some medical school curricula (2 6). Indeed, an expandin...

A manageable approach to integrating personal digital assistants into a family medicine clerkship.

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) were incorporated into the six-week Family Medicine Clerkship in 2002 to achieve two major goals: tracking students' outpatient encounters at preceptor sites and providing opportunities to use PDAs during medical visits. Each student collects information on each patient seen. Data are then retrieved and presented to students individually and as a group twice d...

Integrating population health into a family medicine clerkship: 7 years of evolution.

A population health curriculum using methodologies from community-oriented primary care (COPC) was developed in 1994 as part of a required third-year family medicine clerkship at the University of New Mexico. The curriculum integrates population health/community medicine projects and problem-based tutorials into a community-based, ambulatory clinical experience. By combining a required populati...

The benefits of integrating nutrition into clinical medicine.

Integrating Alternative Medicine into

The historical shift towards a scientific revolution after the eighteenth century in Europe has discarded societal and cultural folklore from its dictionary of knowledge. The Oxford Dictionary defines science as “the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment” (2017). Th...