Integration of Basic and Clinical Sciences: Student Perceptions
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Integration of Basic and Clinical Sciences: Student Perceptions Dharini van der Hoeven 1 & Liang Zhu 2 & Kamal Busaidy 3 & Ryan L. Quock 4 & J. Nathaniel Holland 5 & Ransome van der Hoeven 1
# International Association of Medical Science Educators 2019
Abstract The integrated curriculum is becoming a popular concept among dental schools. The purpose of this study was to query dental students at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston – School of Dentistry (UTSD) to elucidate their level of interest in the integrated curriculum, perception of how much integration is currently occurring, and identify challenges to integration. To address this question, dental students at UTSD were invited to participate in a survey. Participants reported their perspectives on integration of sciences. All survey participants agreed that it is beneficial to integrate clinical and basic sciences and that basic science educators were incorporating clinical relevance in their regular teaching. The third and fourth year classes, classes that had been exposed to general as well as all specialty dentistry clinics, agreed that basic sciences are being incorporated into most clinical teaching. Top two barriers to integration identified by the students were lack of crossover knowledge of faculty, and insufficient time to explore connections between basic sciences and clinical sciences because of the volume of information that needs to be covered. In conclusion, student perception at UTSD is that overall basic and clinical sciences are being integrated throughout the curriculum. Keywords Integrated . Curriculum . UTSD . Dental . Educators
Introduction The popularity of the term “integrated curriculum” has grown immensely in medical education over the last three decades. Since the historic Flexner report, “Medical Education in the * Ransome van der Hoeven [email protected] 1
Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - School of Dentistry, 7500 Cambridge, Houston, TX 77054, USA
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Biostatistics & Epidemiology Research Design Core, Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, and Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston – McGovern Medical School, Houston, USA
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Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - School of Dentistry, Houston, USA
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Department of Restorative Dentistry and Prosthodontics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - School of Dentistry, Houston, USA
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Office of Research, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - School of Dentistry, Houston, USA
United States and Canada” (1910), which shaped the standards of medical education, the basic science curriculum in the first 2 years, consisting of discrete courses controlled by individual departments, had remained separate from the latter 2 years of clinical curriculum [8]. Dissatisfaction with this curricular model gre
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