Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine - Aesculapian Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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YOU WERE ORIE TED Subject Committees. The traditional medical science content of the curriculum has been reorganized. There are no separate departmental courses. Instruction is centered around selected subject areas. and for each subject area a committee com- posed of appropriate departmental representatives decides what shall be presented. and is in charge of the presentation. Multifiiscipline Laboratories. ln order to carry out the correlated method of instruc- tion, special laboratories have been constructed to replace the separate departmental type. In the multidiscipline laboratory each student has a work space of his own, which is available to him at all times and which is not used by anyone else during the school year. The facilities are such that the student can do practically all the required laboratory work in the one location. Free Time. During the first two-and-one-half years each student has 3 half days per week free from all assigned work. In this time he has opportunity to exercise his own initiative in advancing his education. Curricular Project. Each student is required to undertake some type of scientific investigation with the guidance of a member of the Faculty. His area of study may be in any Department of the medical school or in other divisions of the University. Those students who wish to do so may pursue their research during the tenure of summer vacation fellowships. A comprehensive report must be submitted before graduation. Examinaliorzs and Grades. Interim examinations. usually of one day duration. are given approximately 5 times per year during the first two-and-one-half years. Compre- hensive examinations are set by Western Reserve instructors at the end of the first and second years. These examinations are taken anonymously. by number. and the only students identified are' those whose papers are considered unsatisfactory or borderline. All students are required to take part 1 examinations of the National Board of Medical Examiners at the end of the third year. and the part 2 examinations at the end of the fourth year. All instructors who have close personal contact with a student are expected to submit written reports which are used for evaluation of his progress and for counselling him. Clinical Science. Beginning in the first year each student has continuing personal Contact with clinical aspects of medicine. under the guidance of a preceptor who is a physician. In the fall of the first year, each student is .assigned a patient who is under the care of the University Hospital's Department of Obstetrics. He participates in the services rendered to her, and after her delivery focuses on the growth and development of the baby as observed in the Family Clinic and the home, learning first hand about the patient-physician relationship and the complexities of medical care.