Interdisciplinary integration in medical education: theory and method

The concept of integration of the medical curriculum is analysed in terms of three principles: (i) the philosophical principle of the unified universe; (ii) the theory of the structure of knowledge; and (iii) development creative thinking through ‘pattern’ formation and flow of relevant associations.

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