Table 1.

Matching the SYMBIOSIS modules to the list of competencies (E) for premedical undergraduate students with the HHMI–AAMC report (2009)

AAMC–HHMI competencies	Symbiosis 1	Symbiosis 2	Symbiosis 3
E1. Quantitative reasoning: Get specific, “apply quantitative reasoning and appropriate math to describe or explain phenomena in the natural world.”	1–6	1–6	1–6
E2. Scientific inquiry	All laboratory experiments and data analysis
E3-1, -4, -6. Physical principles; thermodynamics		6	2
E4. Chemistry of living systems		4	1, 3, 5, 6
E5. Cell structure and biomolecules	2, 4, 5	6	1, 3, 4, 5, 6
E6. Organismal hierarchy	3	1, 3	4
E7. Response to internal and external signals	2	1–5	1, 2, 4
E8. Evolution by natural selection	4–6

Numbers 1–6 in table body represent the module number.