“Transforming Educational Design: The Experience and Stories of Harvard Medical School’s Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship”
Presented by: David A. Hirsh, MD, FACP Director, Harvard Medical School (HMS) Academy Medical Education Fellowship Co-founder and Director, HMS’ Cambridge Integrated Clerkship
Summary:
The longitudinal integrated clerkship (LIC) model is grounded in principles derived from the sciences of learning–social and cognitive psychology, general education, and medical education. The structure has proved transferable across institutions and contexts and is informing clinical education transformation nationwide and worldwide. This session reviews the case for change and rationale that drove the wholesale redesign of the clinical year from traditional blocks to LICs. Participants will learn how the LIC structure grew directly from the case for change and from educational science. We will review one LIC, Harvard Medical School’s Cambridge Integrated Clerkship and consider its students’ learning and professional outcomes. We will consider the imperatives for change and the success of LIC models: why and how are LICs driving innovations across the continuum of medical education and advancing the discourse in health professions education more generally.
