About the IFM Curriculum

The Interdisciplinary Foundations of Medicine curriculum allows first-year students to immediately begin confronting clinical issues. Clinical symptoms, symptom groups and cases provide the framework for an interdisciplinary presentation of curriculum content. Using symptom-based modules of varying length, basic science and clinical faculty present information from the biomedical, psychosocial and clinical sciences, including clinical skills, in a lecture-based and hands-on format.

Each basic science discipline teaches the material needed to meet its overall learning objectives in an order of presentation that best facilitates a student's grasp of concept and content. Discipline-specific and integrated lectures, labs, small-group sessions with both basic science professors and clinicians, and community-based clinical experiences are an integral part of the curriculum.

Contact Information

Donna M. Russo, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Medical Education
                                        Director, IFM Curriculum
                                        Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Cindy Books, Year 1 IFM Program Coordinator
Tina Maddox, Year 2 IFM Program Coordinator

IFM Office

Drexel University

College of Medicine

2900 Queen Lane, Room 228

Philadelphia, PA 19129

TEL: (215) 991-8140

FAX: (215) 843-0253

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