Perspectives for curriculum renewal in medical education

Basic sciences curriculum in medical education

Introduction: Traditional methods are generally used for teaching basic science courses at Shiraz Medical School. Such courses are taught during the first and second years of a seven-year medical program. The goal of this study was to analyze teachers and students’ perceptions of basic science teaching in medical education.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at the colleg...

The renewal of medical education in Iran: progress and challenge

Medical Education Strategies for implementing curriculum change

BMJ 1992;305:1482-5 The General Medical Council has announced that British medical education must change,' but what strategies can be used to implement the desired reforms? Most people accept that the way in which a subject is taught can have as much impact on what students learn as the content of the course. A recent review by the Oxford Centre for Staff Development identified five aspects of ...

Crowdsourced Curriculum Development for Online Medical Education

In recent years online educational content, efforts at quality appraisal, and integration of online material into institutional teaching initiatives have increased. However, medical education has yet to develop large-scale online learning centers. Crowd-sourced curriculum development may expedite the realization of this potential while providing opportunities for innovation and scholarship. Thi...

Medical Education and Curriculum Reform:

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate criteria by which the principles of curriculum reform can be judged. To this end, the paper presents an overview of standard critiques of medical education and examines the ways medical curriculum reforms have responded to these critiques. The paper then sets out our assessment of these curriculum reforms along three parameters: pedagogy, educational co...