Why OUWB: An Integrative Learning Environment
Why Integrated Learning is Important to Your Medical Education
Integrated learning allows you to apply what you are learning in the classroom to the art and practice of medicine. You will be making these connections throughout all four years of your medical education experience.
Understanding how and why science applies to medicine is crucial to developing your skills as a future doctor. Learning in an integrated environment helps you to connect your clinical skills to your knowledge of the basic sciences.
How our Curriculum is Integrated
Instead of learning about Anatomy, Biochemistry, Physiology and the other basic sciences individually, our curriculum is organized so that you learn the basic sciences altogether in one course.
Each unit is centered around an organ system. While you are learning the basic sciences of the organ system, you will be developing your clinical skills.
Example: The Cardiovascular System Course
In the Cardiovascular course you will learn the basic sciences as they relate to the heart and circulatory system while developing your clinical skills.
