The Demise of the Lecture? The SOM’s new technology-enabled learning studio changes the dynamics of medical education by all but eliminating the traditional lecture. “It may take some time for us as teachers to get used to teaching in the round,” Dr. DeKosky told students.


What would have been a 50-minute period of passive, lecture- based instruction, can now be a dynamic 50 minutes including a 10-minute lecture, a self-assessment on the material assigned from the previous class, a small group discussion on a case- based problem as it relates to an organ system, followed by a review of the case.


Epidemiology to Ethics It’s the pre-clerkship phase that is most affected by the resources available in the new building. During this phase, students will spend their mornings in the new 4,500- square-foot, circular learning studio. Lecture will be minimized as instructors function as facilitators and students, assembled in groups of nine around circular tables, collaborate to test theories and solve problems, much as they will do in clinical practice.


“It is not about coming up with a lot of new content,” Associate Professor Linda Waggoner-Fountain, MD, says of the changes. “It is about putting the content together in different ways. Information will be presented more by subject or theme rather than by discipline.”


Waggoner-Fountain and Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Selina Noramly, PhD, oversaw the design of one of the first courses presented in the Next Generation model. Molecular and Cellular Medicine is an 18- week course that includes basic science content from previously independent courses, such as anatomy, cell biology, pathology and pharmacology, and merges it with clinical skills and topics such as professionalism and ethics.


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