The SIU 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...

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...

Comments upon the Medical Curriculum

1921-22. At the beginning of the last academic year a radical change was made in the curriculum. It has been a time-honored custom to assign students who are just commencing the study of clinical disease at the beginning of their third year, to the out-patient clinic where they obtained a fleeting glance of a multitude of individuals in many stages of health and disease, while the Seniors in th...