A common frustration for students is the challenge of assembling a mental ‘big picture’ that incorporates basic science information from multiple disciplines and applies that information to a clinical problem. We received feedback from our students that they had difficulty correlating immunology of various conditions with the clinical and pathologic changes that occur. They had difficulty remembering why ‘basic’ immunology has such a big impact on observed pathologic findings and they didn’t really understand what kind of pathologic changes would be expected, given the observed clinical findings. We identified three disease processes with complex immunopathology and created narrated modules with integrated immunology, histology, and pathology with a clinical application. Each module includes a self-assessment quiz and a clinical vignette to highlight the important steps in the disease process and to illustrate the clinical relevance of the immunology and pathology. The modules were posted on our learning management system and feedback was assessed by an in-class student survey. Survey results indicated that students liked the modules a lot and students thought they helped them understand the big picture of the disease processes.

 

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