Integrating Specialty-Specific Clinical Anatomy Education into the Post-Clerkship Curriculum.

Anatomy is a foundational science mainstay of undergraduate medical school education, particularly in the pre-clerkship curriculum. During the post-clerkship curriculum, students closer to graduate medical education may benefit from a focused concentration on human anatomy related to their specific clinical interests. Here, we describe a course for post-clerkship students that uniquely incorporates a multimodal approach of dissection, didactics, and clinical correlation to radiologic imaging, with the opportunity to personalize student learning on a specialty-specific anatomic region.

Hands-on Gross Anatomy Instruction Improves Clinical Imaging Skills Among Cardiovascular Fellows.

Introduction: Multi-modality imaging is a crucial component of cardiovascular (CV) fellowship training and requires knowledge of CV anatomy for interpretation. We hypothesized that hands-on anatomy education would improve the imaging interpretation skills of CV fellows.

Methods: The first-year CV fellowship class completed a hands-on cadaveric anatomy session correlated with clinical imaging.

Using the wellness inventory to assess health and well-being in college students at the end of the semester.

The authors examined the end of semester outcomes (December, 2017) on the Wellness Inventory and demographics among college students taking a Physical Education (PED 101) course at a university in the southeast United States. College students were assessed at the end of the semester for health and well-being outcomes according to the Wellness Inventory. Results showed that there were few gender or age differences for the dimensions of well-being.

Burn wounds in the young versus the aged patient display differential immunological responses.

Background: Individuals in the geriatric age range are more prone than younger individuals to convert their partial thickness thermal burns into full thickness injuries. We hypothesized that this often observed clinical phenomenon is strongly related to differential local injury responses mediated by the immune system.

Materials & Methods: Skin samples from areas with partial thickness thermal burns were obtained during routine excision and grafting procedures between post burn days 2-6.

Integrating Foundational Sciences in a Clinical Context in the Post-Clerkship Curriculum.

Purpose: To design, implement, and launch courses that integrate foundational science learning and clinical application in a post-clerkship undergraduate medical school curriculum.

Method: In Academic Year (AY) 15-16, as part of a comprehensive curricular revision, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) formally implemented "Integrated Science Courses" (ISCs) that combined rigorous training in the foundational sciences with meaningful clinical experiences. These courses integrated foundational sciences that could be leveraged in the clinical environment, utilized a variety of instructional modalities, and included quantitative and qualitative (competency-based milestones) student assessments.