Neuroscience Physicians Return to the Medical School Classroom
As Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine’s inaugural class continues its first year, they are being joined in the classroom by a number of neuroscience physicians. A number of neuroscience physicians are stepping out of the hospital and into the classroom to collaboratively lead and instruct a semester-long course in neuroanatomy.
Typically, medical students are taught by professors and doctorates in medical education and basic scientists. It is not often that they are given the unique opportunity to be instructed by active neuroscience physicians with clinical perspective on the subject. The physicians’ lectures to the students will be a combination of their own clinical case studies and presentations integrated with the educational textbook as selected with the OUWB curriculum.
At the conclusion of the course, students are expected to gain an understanding and appreciation for the complexity of the human nervous system by mastering a fundamental knowledge of the structure and functional organization of the central nervous system in order to diagnose and treat diseases of the central nervous system and to serve as a foundation for additional learning in their future specialties.
Fernando Diaz, M.D., Ph.D., chief of neurological surgery, system lead for the neuroscience center of excellence and clinical professor of neurosurgery said, “It is truly our pleasure and privilege to be able to participate in the education of our medical students and future physicians. Everyone in the neurosciences is dedicated to the academic pursuits of the OUWB School of Medicine and we are thankful for this wonderful opportunity.”
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