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Spaced repetition of drugs and drug classes across multiple cases and courses over a 15-month pre-clerkship curriculum

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Description

The integrated curriculum spreads the drug list across the first 2 years so that commonly prescribed drugs recur in multiple cases and disease states. "The number of instances these commonly prescribed drugs appear in the curriculum allows for spaced repetition." For example, methyl-prednisolone appears in 12 of the 72 cases and aspirin in 10. Content is delivered as multiple short videos of 10–15 minutes rather than one long video, which the authors say helps students organize and digest information and eases faculty editing when drug information changes.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Case and course sequencing across 15 months that deliberately re-encounters the same drugs in different disease contexts

Constraints

  • Applies to pharmacology content within an integrated pre-clerkship medical curriculum

Target Learners

  • Pre-clerkship medical students

Learning Goals

  • Retention of drug classes, mechanisms, and indications across disease states

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Key Sources

  • Brinda Desai Bradaric, Eric Van Rite, Lalita Prasad‐Reddy, Michael Bradaric. (2026). Implementation of an Integrated Pharmacology Curriculum in a Flipped, Small‐Group, Case‐Based, Pre‐Clerkship Medical Curriculum Improved Student Performance. Pharmacology Research & Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1002/prp2.70258
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id spaced-repetition-drugs-across-cases
title Spaced repetition of drugs and drug classes across multiple cases and courses over a 15-month pre-clerkship curriculum
description The integrated curriculum spreads the drug list across the first 2 years so that commonly prescribed drugs recur in multiple cases and disease states.
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generated by process:settle-candidates on 2026-11-05
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