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Implementation of a Integrated Program in Human Biology

Bastyr University launched a new undergraduate program in integrated human biology in 2012. The curriculum is a progressive, premedical curriculum that was created in response to initiatives to improve undergraduate life sciences education including Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education, and Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians:Report of the AAMC‐HHMI Committee. The program emphasizes science process through inquiry‐based laboratories, and requires research methods courses including statistics, critical evaluation of scientific literature, and writing research proposals. Students are also encouraged to complete a research project. To be more representative of the interdisciplinary approaches that are critical to solving problems related to human health, the program includes a sequence of integrated human biology courses that introduce students to multiple levels of biological complexity in the context of body systems. Concepts in physiology, anatomy, cell biology, and biochemistry are introduced and applied to each body system and to body system integration. Although students take some discipline specific courses (e.g. physics), concepts from these courses are applied through the integrated course sequence. The curriculum includes a required bioethics course and elective courses that require students to examine the application of science to world problems. Students have responded positively to the integrated organization of the curriculum, and most students have chosen to participate in research. The program has also been rewarding to faculty who work collaboratively to develop syllabi, class/lab exercises and exams. We believe that this program is a successful response to the call for improvement in undergraduate biology education.