Evolution and Revolution: 5 Takeaways From the New Shared Discovery Curriculum
Much like our beginnings , the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine (CHM) is again rethinking and reshaping the medical school experience. Change, in the best interest of our students and communities, has been a challenge CHM proudly embraces time and again. In the early 1960s, reports had demonstrated the need for a medical school in Michigan focused specifically on serving the state's population through direct involvement in community health care. That was the foundation for the College of Human Medicine to become the nation's pioneer community-based medical school in 1964. A formal philosophy of enabling clinical training within community hospitals materialized. CHM also went on to develop "focal problems," a precursor of Problem-Based Learning (PBL). The college is the first to have a medical ethics unit as well as the first to offer a bio-psycho-social model of curriculum. Since its creation, in fact, the college's curriculum h