Cross-curricular themes in curricula

Medical school curricula: do curricular approaches affect competence in medicine?

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES US medical school curricula continually undergo reform. The effect of formal curricular approaches (course organization and pedagogical techniques) on competence in medicine as measured by the United States Medical Licensing Examinations (USMLE) Step 1, 2, and 3 is not fully understood. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of formal curricular appro...

Health Systems Science Curricula in Undergraduate Medical Education: Identifying and Defining a Potential Curricular Framework.

PURPOSE The authors performed a review of 30 Accelerating Change in Medical Education full grant submissions and an analysis of the health systems science (HSS)-related curricula at the 11 grant recipient schools to develop a potential comprehensive HSS curricular framework with domains and subcategories. METHOD In phase 1, to identify domains, grant submissions were analyzed and coded using ...

Development of Cross Curricular Competences in University Classrooms - Public Speaking

The consolidation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in universities has led to significant changes in student training. This paper, part of a Teaching Innovation Project, starts from new training requirements that are fit within Undergraduate Thesis Project, a subject that culminate student learning. Undergraduate Thesis Project is current assessment system that weigh the student acq...

Cross-curricular Collaboration in Teaching Social Aspects of Genetics

Science teachers can lack pedagogic skill and confidence in handling multifaceted socio-scientific issues. This project has explored the development, implementation and evaluation of a ‘cross-curricular’ day as a suitable vehicle in 8 different schools for both engaging 14-16 year old pupils in active consideration of social aspects of genetics and enabling science and humanities teachers to co...

Ac 2007-1949: Vertical Integration of Matlab across Engineering Curricula: Systematic Curricular Change by Small Steps