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ArticleTitle | Implementation of Integrated Medical Curriculum in Japanese Medical Schools |
AuthorList | Toshiro Shimura1, Takumi Aramaki1, Kazuo Shimizu1,2, Tsuguhiro Miyashita1,3, Koji Adachi4 and Akira Teramoto4 |
Affiliation | 1Academic Quality and Development Office, Nippon Medical School 2Second Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School 3Department of Radiology, Nippon Medical School 4Department of Neurosurgery, Nippon Medical School |
Language | EN |
Volume | 71 |
Issue | 1 |
Year | 2004 |
Page | 11-16 |
Received | September 19, 2003 |
Accepted | October 8, 2003 |
Keywords | medical education, integrated, curriculum, structure and function |
Abstract | Recently, various integrated medical curricula, which can be defined as courses with subject matter classified by organ systems rather than according to departments such as surgery and internal medicine, are beginning to be introduced to bedside-learning in Japan. For example, in such an integrated medical curriculum, lectures in the course on neurological diseases would be given by a team that would include neurosurgeons, neurologists, and pathologists. Using medical education on neurological diseases as an example of an integrated medical curriculum, we analyzed the factors related to the neurological disease course as an example of an integrated medical curriculum in the clinical medicine course at our school. We also compared our course with those of all private medical schools in Japan, using the syllabuses of these private medical schools for the comparison, and considered elements that measured interdisciplinary participation in presenting the curriculum. For an integrated medical curriculum to gain interdisciplinary acceptance, the curriculum should be constituted using all medical disciplines related to the specific organ involved in the disease process under study, including both basic medicine and clinical medicine. In addition, teachers should be informed of the rationale for such a curriculum to promote their participation and a textbook on the integrated medical curriculum is needed. A curriculum committee should play an important role in promoting this type of medical education. |
Correspondence to | Correspondence to Toshiro Shimura, MD, Academic Quality and Development Office, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8603, Japan t-simura@nms.ac.jp |
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