Concluding Commentary. Life Sciences in an Integrated Medical Curriculum: Continuing the Conversation

Abstract

In our opening editorial, we contrasted the time devoted to delivering the Life Sciences curriculum, as a part of medical training, with the limited attention given to it within the medical education literature (Jennings & Keenan, 2017). In our experience, there are also few opportunities to present and discuss Life Sciences at medical education conferences and perhaps within the wider medical education community. We therefore started this conversation to provide a forum for consideration of the integration and delivery of Life Sciences teaching within medical curricula.

The value of Life Sciences in an Integrated Curriculum: A Reflective Perspective of studying two Life Sciences Degrees a decade apart and the challenges faced in professional life

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AbstractIn a recent MedEdPublish article by Keenan and Jennings (2017), I was interested in why some Life Sciences are under-represented in the wider medical literature. The article states anatomy to be the dominant discipline within medical schools and describes a close link between anatomy and educational research with the presence of an "established medical education research community and social media community linked to anatomy".

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