The “Pillars” of Curriculum Reform

A new curriculum based on four pillars

A few months ago, I was asked by our faculty administration to write a paper about medical education at the University of Antwerp in Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium. They thought I was the right person for this assignment because not only do I know the faculty of medicine as a student, I also participated in the development of the education programme. In the following, I will highl...

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...

Curriculum reform: a narrated journey.

OBJECTIVES Curriculum reform poses significant challenges for medical schools across the globe. Understanding the medical educator's personal and lived experience of curriculum change is paramount. This paper illustrates the use of narrative inquiry as a means of exploring the author's own evolving professional identity as a medical educator engaged in planning and leading curriculum reform and...

Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform

Evaluation of oral microbiology lab curriculum reform

BACKGROUND According to the updated concept of oral microbiology, the School of Stomatology, Wuhan University, has carried out oral microbiology teaching reforms during the last 5 years. There was no lab curriculum before 2009 except for a theory course of oral microbiology. The school has implemented an innovative curriculum with oral medicine characteristics to strengthen understanding of kno...