Team‐taught grand rounds promote horizontal and vertical integration in a discipline‐based medical curriculum

Curriculum Integration, with Emphasis on Integration in Medical Education

Introduction: There are increasing advances in science. Medical science must move with this growing trend. Therefore, it is necessary to change the content and setup of medical education curriculum especially basic sciences courses. This study aimed to review literatures about integration in medical curriculum and to present concepts, importance, types and stages of integration in medical scien...

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Horizontal and Vertical Integration of Design: An Approach to Curriculum Revision*

The horizontal and vertical integration of design is discussed as a paradigm for redesigning the aerospace engineering curriculum at the University of Cincinnati. The motivation for such change is described in detail together with the educational philosophy developed in response to internal and external information gathering exercises. The general form of the newly proposed curriculum is presen...

Vertical integration in the teaching of final year medical students

Dear Editor, The traditional approach to medical educationhas been dichotomous, with a lack ofintegration between basic sciences and clinicalmedicine (1). Recent reforms have called forindividualizing the learning process, integratingknowledge with practice, and cultivating a spiritof lifelong learning (2). Vertical integrationbreaks the traditional division between clinicaland pre-clinical sci...

Physician opinions about an anatomy core curriculum: a case for medical imaging and vertical integration.

Pre-clinical anatomy curricula must provide medical students with the knowledge needed in a variety of medical and surgical specialties. But do physicians within specialties agree about what anatomical knowledge is most important in their practices? And, what is the common core of anatomical knowledge deemed essential by physicians in different specialties? Answers to these questions would be u...