Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine: an innovative approach to medical education and the training of physician investigators.

Full Abstract

Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine (CCLCM) is an innovative, five-year medical education track within Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (Case) with a focused mission to attract and educate a limited number of highly qualified persons who seek to become physician investigators. CCLCM curriculum governance, faculty appointments and promotions, and admissions committees are integrated with respective Case committees. The CCLCM curriculum is based on faculty-defined professional attributes that graduates are expected to develop. These attributes were used to create curricular and assessment principles that guided the development of an integrated basic science, clinical science, and research curriculum, conducted in an active learning environment. An organ-system approach is used to solidify an understanding of basic science discipline threads in the context of relevant clinical problems presented in PBL and case-based discussion formats. Clinical skills are introduced in the first year as part of the two-year longitudinal experience with a family practice or internal medicine physician. The research program provides all students with opportunities to learn and experience basic and translational research and clinical research before selecting a research topic for their 12- to 15-month master-level thesis project. All Case students participate in required and elective clinical curriculum after the second year, but CCLCM students return to the Cleveland Clinic on selected Friday afternoons for program-specific research and professionalism-learning activities. A unique portfolio-based assessment system is used to assess student achievements in nine competency areas, seven of which reflect the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education competencies.

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Author information

Author/s: Fishleder, Andrew J (AJ); Henson, Lindsey C (LC); Hull, Alan L (AL);

Affiliation: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Review

Journal: Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Acad Med), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2007-Apr; vol 82 (issue 4) : pp 390-6

Dates: Created 2007/04/06; Completed 2007/05/11; Revised 2008/11/21;

PMID: 17414197, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Biological Science Disciplines - education
Education, Medical, Undergraduate - organization & administration
Educational Measurement
Faculty, Medical
Humans
Ohio

Ohio
Physicians
Professional Competence
Program Development
Research - education
Research Personnel - education

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