Alumni Voice: Curriculum
"Medical education tends to be something people fall into, not something
they set out to do," says Dana Tuttle, a first year resident who
is now herself something of a medical education specialist. In fact, Dana's
experience at UCSF models what the "Areas of Concentration"
approach seeks to achieve for other students.
Tuttle's own introduction to medical education came during her first
year, when the developers of UCSF's "new curriculum" invited
first and second year students to participate in the Curriculum Ambassador
program. As her own classes were still taught in the "old" way,
where "everything was lecture, and very little was interdisciplinary,"
she was intrigued and signed up.
As a curriculum ambassador, Dana worked with faculty on a seven-week
course for first year students, called the "Cancer Block," which
aims to help students learn about cancer through multiple disciplines
simultaneously. Today, other Block courses include "Brain, Mind,
and Behavior," "Infection, Inflammation, and Immunity,"
and "Lifecycle."
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