The Modular Medical Integrated Curriculum

Modifying the present premedical and basic medical-science curricula is a difficult task. This portion of a physician's training has undergone little revision since the early 1900s, despite pleas for change from medical educators.1 Substantial barriers separate these two phases of education. It has recently been suggested that the education of physicians is in need of change and that there might be advantages to more fully coordinating the college and medical-school experiences in two ways: by integrating the first year of medical school within the present undergraduate curriculum, and by beginning the medical-school curriculum with pathophysiology, physical diagnosis, and history taking, . . .