Electives - Medical Education
Teaching and Curriculum Development - Cell
and Tissue Structure
Elective Number: 3404 (arranged)
Rotation Supervisor: Dr. Robert A. Bloodgood
Evaluation should be given to: Dr. Bloodgood, Jordan Hall room
3-089
Duration: Maximum 8 weeks, Minimum 4 weeks
Available: This elective is not available to
visiting students
Report to: Dr. Bloodgood
Time to Report: as arranged
Place to Report: as arranged - probably Jordan 3-089
Attendance: Attendance at elective activities is mandatory.
- Anyone who is ill or has a personal or family emergency must contact
Student Affairs and the Attending on Service.
- Students are allowed to take off up to 1 day per week to interview
between November 1 and February 1.
- Specific days missed must be approved by the Attending on Service.
Number of Students Per Rotation: 2
Course Description: Goals and Objectives: Provide a teaching experience
in the basic sciences through participation in the first year medical
course in Cell and Tissue Structure/Physiology.
- Provides useful information for a student to help decide whether to
pursue a career in academic medicine.
- Allows a student to reinforce their knowledge in this subject area
at the same time as they gain some teaching experience. This elective
is particularly appropriate for any medical student who contemplates
a career in academic medicine.
The experience will be tailored to the interests of the individual student
and may include any combination of the following activities:
- Curriculum Coordination - Attend lectures in the particular course,
and perhaps in other courses in order to assess the relationship of
material in different courses and enhance coordination of the curriculum.
- Lab Instruction - work with a course instructor and a group of 1st
year medical students in the teaching laboratories.
- Course Evaluation - Use the unique student perspective to evaluate
the course in the context of the rest of the medical curriculum and
to make suggestions towards improved clinical relevance, clinical usefulness
and coordination of material across courses. Review course materials,
lectures and labs.
- Test Preparation; write/revise quiz questions in the MMDB.
- Use of multimedia in teaching; collect, edit and label microscopic
images for the MMDB.
- Web site development: Cell and Tissue Structure: http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/courses/cell/
- Development of clinical correlations and clinical cases to complement
the material in the course and to contribute to integration of basic
science and clinical information. Posting of these on the appropriate
teaching web site.
Students who participate in this elective are eligible for the Medical
Science Teaching Award
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