ABSTRACT
In the past many undergraduate medical school curricula were based on lecture-based courses in specific disciplines. Increasingly there has been a change to integrated problem-based teaching, with all the disciplines being integrated into a particular theme. While this has clear advantages, there are disadvantages as well. In the case of the pathologies, only a snapshot of a particular topic may be seen, and an overall understanding of a subject may be difficult for the student to obtain. Medical microbiology is one example of this, for in its own right it is a vast subject.
