There are over 500,000 publications each year in the medical sciences alone.  This impressive rate of discovery represents a tempting opportunity to increase the depth of the medical school curriculum.  At The Johns Hopkins University, medical students spend over 800 hours in lecture during their first two years and several hundred hours in laboratory sessions and small group discussions.  Not only is the depth of our curriculum increasing, but so is its breadth.  The medical curriculum currently includes courses such as Physician and Society, Evidence and Policy and electives in Bioinformatics; these are courses that move well beyond those traditionally offered during the first two years of study.  The desire to prepare our students for a career in medicine by enhancing traditional course content with the most current information must be balanced by the inherent risk that we are simply attempting to deliver too much information. 

In this one hour IAMSE Webcast Audio Seminar, Dr. Goldberg will discuss one solution that faculty members at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine are using to address the following questions: