Event Title
Development of Educational Course Objectives for a Pre-Matriculation Course: TISSUE
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Start Date
9-5-2018 1:00 PM
Description
TISSUE (Teaching Introductory Study Skills Utilizing Experience), a pre-matriculation course for incoming first-year medical students, utilized a blended online/in-person course format. The goal of TISSUE was to familiarize incoming M1 students at PCOM with anatomy and histology concepts prior to their first-year class of Structural Principles of Osteopathic Medicine (SPOM). The course was directed towards students with limited or negligible anatomy/histology credentials but was open to any future PCOM DO student. Instructional emphasis was placed on general high-yield topics that were selected at the course developers’ discretion. The chosen subjects represented lectures distributed throughout SPOM so that the effect of the TISSUE course would be effective throughout the fall term, instead of having only an immediate impact. The main obstacle to selection of content was the limited space available to teach them in a two-week pre-matriculation course. The schedule limited each topic’s instruction time to essentially one 50-minute lecture with an accompanying laboratory follow-up. Education in these subject areas focused on identifying high-yield content, study habits, linking lecture material to lab material, problem solving and utilization/creation of study resources. Students were able to test what they learned in the course via two practicals (given to both the in-person and online sections) as well as two written exams which were based on lesson objectives.
Embargo Period
5-31-2018
Development of Educational Course Objectives for a Pre-Matriculation Course: TISSUE
Philadelphia, PA
TISSUE (Teaching Introductory Study Skills Utilizing Experience), a pre-matriculation course for incoming first-year medical students, utilized a blended online/in-person course format. The goal of TISSUE was to familiarize incoming M1 students at PCOM with anatomy and histology concepts prior to their first-year class of Structural Principles of Osteopathic Medicine (SPOM). The course was directed towards students with limited or negligible anatomy/histology credentials but was open to any future PCOM DO student. Instructional emphasis was placed on general high-yield topics that were selected at the course developers’ discretion. The chosen subjects represented lectures distributed throughout SPOM so that the effect of the TISSUE course would be effective throughout the fall term, instead of having only an immediate impact. The main obstacle to selection of content was the limited space available to teach them in a two-week pre-matriculation course. The schedule limited each topic’s instruction time to essentially one 50-minute lecture with an accompanying laboratory follow-up. Education in these subject areas focused on identifying high-yield content, study habits, linking lecture material to lab material, problem solving and utilization/creation of study resources. Students were able to test what they learned in the course via two practicals (given to both the in-person and online sections) as well as two written exams which were based on lesson objectives.