TABLE 2.

Types of Medical Curricula in the United States

Parameter	Organizing Schema
	Discipline	Organ System	Complaint
Management	Department with variable central oversight.	Some central management required.	Significant central management essential.
Administrative effort	Efficient, broad faculty engagement not required. Faculty members teach within their departmental offerings.	Efficient, but some degree of broader faculty engagement is necessary. Recruitment of teaching faculty can be a challenge.	Broad faculty engagement required for aspects of quality assurance related to large number of patient complaints. Designated teaching faculty track is common.
Contextual presentation of material	Information typically not presented in format in which it will be accessed.	Information is presented in a more contextual form.	Information presented contextually.
Reinforcement of presented material	Typically does not reinforce or update students' knowledge base in a deliberate or consistent manner.	Typically does not reinforce or update students' knowledge base in a deliberate or consistent manner.	May or may not deliberately reinforce integration of basic and clinical material.