Medical Education

Integrated Curriculum

Temple University School of Medicine introduced a new integrated curriculum beginning with the class entering in fall 2005. Years 1 and 2 are based upon body and organ systems and are slightly shorter than the previous discipline-based curriculum. Emphasis is placed upon integration among the basic science disciplines and between the basic science and clinical disciplines. Years 3 and 4 provide specialty-based clerkships with enhanced emphasis on integration with the basic sciences, evidence-based medicine, and professionalism. This new curriculum more closely reflects the ways in which students will identify and address clinical problems in both their educational and professional careers. It penetrates the somewhat artificial barriers inherent in basic science discipline-based courses and demonstrates the close linkage between the basic sciences and clinical medicine, inculcating into students those fundamental skills that will provide an excellent foundation for their careers in medicine.

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