Introduction: Despite the importance of curriculum analysisfor internal refinement of a programme, the approach for sucha step in under-described in the literature. This article describesthe analysis of the medical curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine,University of Gezira (FMUG). This analysis is crucial in the eraof innovative medical education since introducing new curriculaand curricular ch...

CONTEXT Although many studies have addressed the integration of a religion and/or spirituality curriculum into medical school training, few describe the process of curriculum development based on qualitative data from students and faculty. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to explore the perspectives of medical students and chaplaincy trainees regarding the development of a curriculum to fa...

The Australian Language Levels (ALL) Project offers a coherent model for elementary and secondary language curriculum design. Book 4 of the four-volume series discusser espects of curriculum change and inservice teacher education, emphasizing the fact that curriculum and staff development are ongoing processes. A section on implementing curriculum change looks at trends and directions in curric...

This paper describes the experiences of a team of undergraduate research students that were assigned the task of designing a product family for a reconfigurable manufacturing system, RMS. This problem of designing a product family for a RMS required a different type of thinking than that required for traditional product design. Not only did consideration have to be given to the product design s...

This paper presents an approach to combine efforts in Economics and Software Engineering, in order to treat software development from the economics perspective. We define the term transdisciplinary, in the context of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, and use it to derive mutual relationships between Economics and Software Engineering. Finally, we propose a research agenda for co...

Objective. To describe a new national general pediatrics clerkship curriculum, the development process that built national support for its use, and current progress in implementing the curriculum in pediatric clerkships at US allopathic medical schools. Curriculum Development. A curriculum project team of pediatric clerkship directors and an advisory committee representing professional organiza...

after a relatively long period of centralization and with the beginning of decentralization experiences since 1970s, the periodical orientations and trends of governments towards both centralization and decentralization systems appeared. stemming generally from political and economic domains, decentralization entered curriculum and education system from these domains. problems such as deficienc...

PROBLEM Communication with patients and families in critical care medicine (CCM) can be complex and challenging. A longitudinal curricular model integrating multiple techniques within classroom and clinical milieus may facilitate skillful communication across diverse settings. APPROACH In 2014-2015, the authors developed and implemented a curriculum for CCM fellows at the Cumming School of Me...

The 8-step template was created during the early phases of studying the present curriculum. The 8-step template includes: (1) Establishing the exact nature of curriculum problems, (2) Prioritizing and accessing needs, (3) Projecting a long range curriculum plan, (4) Consulting parallel accredited schools catalogs for similar programs, (5) Adapting national and international model curriculums, (...

Learning analytics deals with the development of methods that harness educational data sets to support the learning process. One of the major subtasks of learning analytics is to determine the efficacy of a curriculum. In this paper contribution, the authors propose a generic curriculum analytics framework that can act as a useful guide for understanding the key dimensions that have to be consi...