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Integrated and Flipped: 5 Years’ Experience of Integrating Active Learning in an Integrated Course

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The Commonwealth Medical College (TCMC) accepted its first class of students in 2009. Being a new medical school gave a group of pioneering faculty members a unique opportunity, to develop a curriculum unencumbered by tradition. The Clinical Presentation Curriculum model provided the framework for an integrated course which utilized podcasts and active learning techniques to facilitate student learning using a flipped classroom approach. In this monograph, we describe how we developed the TCMC model of an integrated system course for the second year medical students reflecting on our 5 years’ experience with this integrated and flipped classroom model.

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  1. Department of Basic Science, The Commonwealth Medical College, 525 Pine Street, Suite 3053, Scranton, PA, 18509, USA

    John L. Szarek, Jennifer M. Boardman & Jeffrey T. Holt

  2. Department of Family, Rural and Community Health, The Commonwealth Medical College, 525 Pine Street, Suite 3053, Scranton, PA, 18509, USA

    Mark White

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Szarek, J.L., Boardman, J.M., White, M. et al. Integrated and Flipped: 5 Years’ Experience of Integrating Active Learning in an Integrated Course. Med.Sci.Educ. 26, 159–167 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-015-0214-7

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