Teaching Implications

Curricular integration is based on offering student contextualized and coherent learning. The student must understand the meaning and relevance of the concepts being studied.

To achieve that goal, the Integrated Curriculum provides:

1. Linking all subjects throughout the six years of degree program to offer progressive, deep and lifelong learning. This puts an end to the juxtaposition between basic and clinical subjects ("vertical integration") and the organization of clinical subjects in isolation from each other ("horizontal integration"). In addition, redundant information is avoided, optimizing time and avoiding discrepancies.

2. Analyze which methodology professor and assessment is the most appropriate for each skill of Degree. Thus, practical learning in the hospital setting ceases to run in parallel and is fully integrated from the first courses. The masterful class is seen as one methodology among many others (problem-based learning, team learning, class , etc.).

3. Integrate in all subjects some transversal competencies and knowledge of subjects such as epidemiology and preventive medicine, or ethics and professionalism.

With this change, the teacher is integrated into a model educational that allows him/her:

1. Provide a more effective teaching : with the new methodologies and a better planning of the teaching, the professor will optimize his time of dedication and will be able to see how the student learns in a more effective way and with greater clinical sense.

2. A more interactive and mutually enriching student-teacher relationship that can easily extend to mentoring.

3. A simpler integration of student in the dynamics of clinical services and Departments , within a training continuum that extends throughout the residency program.