Innate and Adaptive Immune Response to a Virus: An Integrated Learning Module

MedEdPORTAL Publications
Ellen F DudreyJanet F Piskurich

Abstract

Medical schools must expand their teaching strategies to address a new generation of medical students and ensure their growth into lifelong, self-directed learners. Integration across basic science disciplines packaged together with clinical medicine produces learning materials that better enable medical students to achieve these goals. We created a narrated audiovisual learning module illustrating the foundational sciences and clinical presentation surrounding immune responses to viral infections. We integrated immunology, microbiology, histology, pathology, and clinical medicine and included a self-assessment quiz and clinical vignette with questions to test students' understanding of the material. We published the module on our school's learning management system and tracked student usage, which was followed by an in-class survey to assess student perceptions of the usefulness of the module. Sixty-four (59%) of the first-year medical students used the module. Thirty-seven students completed the in-class survey assessing their perceptions of the module. Over 95% of responders reported that the module helped them learn the new material, identify areas of weakness, understand the big picture for this immune response, and apply ...Continue Reading

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