Competency-based Physiology UG curriculum: Use of novel learning tools

Competency-Based Curriculum: Linking Theory and Practice

Background and objective: Most higher education curricula do not provide the competencies graduates need in the occupational fields, resulting in waste of money and lower effectiveness while increasing the number of unemployed graduates. Competency-based education is an innovative educational model that can solve such problems and lead education activists to design competency-based curricula. T...

Competency-based curriculum: Permanent transition in dentistry

Contemplation on Competency-based Curriculum in Medical Education

Introduction: One of the approaches to explaining the relationship between education and the world of work, and reducing the gap between students’ knowledge and their professional needs is competency-based curriculum. Due to its unique characteristics, competency-based curriculum has been noticed recently by educational systems of various countries especially in medical education. Given the imp...

Competency-based curriculum and active methodology: perceptions of nursing students.

This study identifies the perceptions of undergraduate students at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, College of Nursing (EERP-USP) concerning the teaching-learning process in two courses: Integrated Seminar: Health-Disease/Care Process in Health Services Policies and Organization, which was offered to first-year students in 2005 and 2006 and Integrality in Health Care I and...

Curriculum Development Using Problem Based Learning Techniques

The ultimate purpose in designing a Curriculum should be to have an organized system of what is to be learned when an area of study is identified. The Curriculum Development should be designed in such a way that even the beginners are able to get a complete idea of the subject over a period of time on learning it. The curriculum should be as of that it should make him/her to get involved in kno...