This block is fully integrated covering normal structure and function as well as integrating disease processes and pharmacotherapy of the diseases related to neurology and psychiatry. The course is runs over eleven weeks. All the learning activities are centered on weekly themes. A typical week starts with the teaching of structure and function followed by disease processes and pharmacotherapy. In the last part of the week clinical lectures are delivered to relate clinical features with the disease processes, and to discuss diagnostic approaches to different clinical presentations. A PBL case relevant to the theme of the week is discussed and serves to anchor the learning around that theme.
Prerequisite Courses
Corequisites