Why change the medical curriculum?

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 ...

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...

Medical education and the healthcare system – why does the curriculum need to be reformed?

Medical education has been the subject of ongoing debate since the early 1900s. The core of the discussion is about the importance of scientific knowledge on biological understanding at the expense of its social and humanistic characteristics. Unfortunately, reforms to the medical curriculum are still based on a biological vision of the health-illness process. In order to respond to the current...