The Duke University School of Medicine comprises 23 clinical and basic science departments consisting of more than 2,200 faculty, 450 medical students, more than 1000 residents and fellows, and approximately 640 PhD students.
A] Didactic Lectures: This approach consisted of large group lectures delivered by faculty of basic science departments in a traditional fashion on different components of CNS, intending to give an idea of the basic concepts to the students.
The PSA has also partnered with the chairpersons of the seven basic science departments in which the majority of UCSF postdocs reside.
A different anonymous questionnaire was sent to the faculty members of basic science departments through the dean's office and their response was implied as consent.
An external faculty from Christian Medical College, Vellore with experience of implementing ILP in basic sciences shared her experience with the faculty of basic science departments during her visit to conduct a workshop on problem based learning.
Furthermore, to best accomplish this, according to Brokaw, students must receive training in critical scientific evaluation of the literature through enlistment of faculty in basic science departments, who can impart a critical perspective [ 5].
The CMBS Integrated Program, which includes a track in the Department of Systems Biology, comprises coursework in biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, and molecular genetics, and students study under Systems Biology faculty and professors from each of the basic science departments at Columbia.
All of the basic science departments within the Duke University School of Medicine, including Biochemistry, are located in adjacent buildings along the two sides of Research Drive, promoting frequent interdepartmental interactions and productive collaborations.
This is outside the means of most basic science departments.
This track includes faculty from the Department of Pharmacology and several other clinical and basic science departments who are interested in the identification of novel therapeutic targets, the rationale design of drugs, molecular mechanisms of drug action or the molecular aspects of disease and therapeutics.
