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Reforming the Curriculum at Case Western Reserve Medical School
Preparing Physicians for the Future: A Program in Medical Education
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine developed a plan to reform its medical education curriculum.
This work was funded under Preparing Physicians for the Future, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) designed to facilitate major undergraduate curriculum reform in U.S. medical schools.
Key Results:
- The school developed a curriculum that was interdisciplinary and broad in scope, rather than a pathway to early specialization.
- The Core Physician Development Program was designed as the developmental axis about which the student's education builds, providing a learning laboratory for the integration of basic and clinical sciences throughout all four years of medical school.
- The school planned an intensive clinical experience, the Core Clinical Clerkship Program, to be encompassed by a 12-month general clinical experience in the third year and appropriate "selectives" in the fourth year.
- Detailed studies were conducted of incentives for self-directed learning, evaluation of students, faculty development needs, and resources for teaching.
Preparing Physicians for the Future Project Results
Individual project results from the RWJF national program, Preparing Physicians for the Future: A Program in Medical Education
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