For students, By students: The development of a histology question bank across nine medical school campuses

In 2016, Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) implemented a standardized curriculum across all nine of its statewide regional campuses. With a significant reduction in the number of in‐class histology lab contact hours, a student‐driven histology question bank was developed in Fall 2017 as an optional, additional learning resource. This ongoing project involves student groups from all nine campuses creating questions and providing peer‐review. It is based on a “pay to play” model wherein the students maintain access to the question bank as long as they continue to submit new questions. Overall student participation averaged 60% throughout the semester, both in submitting questions and taking the practice quizzes. The results of this project suggest the histology question bank is valued by IUSM students and the student‐driven model may provide a means of creating question banks in other areas of study. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .