Capping off the medical curriculum

The Medical Curriculum

The Changing Medical Curriculum

Medical humanities in the undergraduate medical curriculum.

The medical humanities have been introduced in medical curricula over the past 30 years in the western world. Having medical humanities in a medical school curriculum can nurture positive attitudes in the regular work of a clinician and contribute equally to personality development. Though substantial evidence in favour of a medical humanities curriculum may be lacking, the feedback is positive...

Getting off the carousel: De-centring the curriculum in medical education

It is refreshing to see a research study examining the specificities and particularities of a change process in medical education. ‘Getting off the carousel: Exploring the wicked problem of curriculum reform’ by Hawick et al. does exactly that, providing the medical education community with a very interesting case study [1]. As Hawick et al. note, there is a commonly held belief that curriculum...

Nutrition in the Medical Curriculum

There is a clear need for nutrition as a necessary component of education in medicine. The science of nutrition, with its basic and applied components, is very amenable to being introduced into the medical curriculum, both as a vertical as well as horizontal integrated course. Textbooks now emphasize the issue of malnutrition in hospital settings (the skeleton in the hospital closet), and the c...