Innate and Adaptive Immune Response to a Virus: An Integrated Learning Module.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Medical schools must expand their teaching strategies to address a new generation of medical students and ensure their growth into lifelong, self-directed learners. Integration across basic science disciplines packaged together with clinical medicine produces learning materials that better enable medical students to achieve these goals.

Methods

We created a narrated audiovisual learning module illustrating the foundational sciences and clinical presentation surrounding immune responses to viral infections. We integrated immunology, microbiology, histology, pathology, and clinical medicine and included a self-assessment quiz and clinical vignette with questions to test students' understanding of the material. We published the module on our school's learning manag

SUBMITTER: Dudrey EF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6346283 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature