Integration of Pathology Teaching In Medical Education

Undergraduate medical education trends with reduced§contact hours clearly points towards a need for§greater integration of content in the curriculum.§This book shares the perceptions of faculty and§students to the horizontal & vertical integration of§pathology teaching at the College of Medicine,§University of Saskatchewan. The results of this study§strongly supports a balanced composite curricular§design, including facets of horizontal, vertical, and§diagonal integration as the best practice plan for§the instruction of pathology in the integrated§medical curriculum. An unexpected emergent theme is§the recognition of the perception gap between§students & faculty. As learning is the central§function of all education, the future of successful§effective medical educational learning environments§needs an inter-generational component of students &§faculty to engage as true joint partners in§curriculum reform. This will heal the fractured§relationship of teaching and learning by providing§the right balance between faculty expectations and§student learner needs. This book will be useful to§all educators & professionals involved in the§implementation of ongoing medical curricular reform.