A proposed immunology curriculum structure for undergraduate medical education.
The multiphasic approach to this curricular structure for immunology is grounded in two learning theories, cognitivism and constructionism. The order and spaced repetition of immunological concepts within this triphasic model allows for appropriate knowledge acquisition and content reinforcement (cognitivism); the sequence of introducing foundational immunology, then applying it in the context of individualized organ systems courses, before recapitulating the material within clinical settings provides students opportunities to sequentially build and expand their disciplinary knowledge (constructionism).