O04 Four-Year experience of Pharmacology Teaching in the Integrated Curriculum at Taipei Yang-Ming University

National Yang-Ming University was established in 1971 at Taipei. We mainly train 7- year medical students immediately after high school education. Originally, the 4^th year students received their pharmacology teaching by an intensive course within one semester （4 hours/wk）. We covered all 66 chapters in ＂Basic ＆ Clinical Pharmacology＂, with a total 72 lecture hours. In order to design a problem-based learning course for all the courses of previous 4^th year students, our pharmacology teaching must re-organize in this integrated curriculum from the year of 2001. The major changes include： decreasing total lecture hour （from 72 to 58）, one semester course becoming one-year course （roughly 2 hours/wk）, merely covering 80% of all 66 chapters in the textbook. We did student survey each year and the results will be presented in our presentation. Also, the advantages and disadvantages for this reform will be discussed.

O04 Four-Year experience of Pharmacology Teaching in the Integrated Curriculum at Taipei Yang-Ming University