A retrospective look at the medical curriculum.
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چکیده
The Baconian concept that knowledge makes perfect and more knowledge makes more perfect is no longer feasible. The quantity and rate with which new information is being added is phenomenal. Moreover, the whole field is in a state of flux. Concepts are being discarded to be replaced by new ones and facts are piling up. The “Learner’s load has become impossible.” Educationists including those involved in Medical Education are confronted with the problem of picking out from the vast sea of knowledge those bits which are essential for a given profession. For physicians this means, those areas of knowledge, skill and attitudes which are essential for satisfactoraly practicing medicine in a given community. A relevant, balanced curriculum of a medical college is, thus, designed to meet the aspirations and needs of the local community which its graduates are to serve. Since medical science and the needs of the country both are subject to change with time, the designing of a curriculum should have an in-built mechanism for changing with the needs. A curriculum taken from elsewhere, no matter how prestigious the institution or institutions be, is not likely to fulfill the local needs. Each country has to develop a curriculum that will meet its own requirements. The design of such a relevant, balanced curriculum obviously needs data from different sources including the community and the technical experts. As a step towards collecting some information which could be used for the analysis of the present curriculum this study was undertaken with the assistance of the Pakistan Medical Research Council.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
دوره 35 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1985