THE PRESENT 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...

Present and future of the undergraduate ophthalmology curriculum: a survey of UK medical schools

Objectives To investigate the current undergraduate ophthalmology curricula provided by the UK medical schools, evaluate how they compare with the guidelines of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) and International Council for Ophthalmology (ICO), and determine the views of the UK ophthalmology teaching leads on the future direction of the curriculum. Methods A cross-sectional que...

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...