PURPOSE Radiation oncology curriculum development is challenging because of limited numbers of trainees at any single institution. The goal of this project is to implement and evaluate a standardized medical student clerkship curriculum following the multi-institutional cooperative group research model. METHODS During the 2013 academic year, a standardized curriculum was implemented at 11 aca...

Quality improvement (QI) is an essential component of medical practice. Medical students and residents must learn the skills to conduct clinical QI during their educational programs. Medical educators must create and implement a curriculum in QI to empower their students to develop this skill and knowledge. However, developing and implementing a QI curriculum may be challenging for some residen...

conclusions meeting the prerequisites to incorporating tbl in the curriculum of medical universities plays a pivotal role in its success. accordingly, in the assessment of the curriculum of medical universities, these requirements should be fully identified and fulfilled so as to be able to devise appropriate plans for the success of teaching methods. context this review study, performed in 201...

The biopsychosocial model, which has extraordinary merit for explaining and predicting health and well-being, has had relatively limited acceptance over the past 25 years. There may be a variety of reasons for this, but the forces that shape medical education must be taken into account if the biopsychosocial model is to be more fully accepted than it is currently. Two factors, medical school fi...

Eduard Seidler sets his discussion of the teaching of medical ethics in the Federal Republic of Germany against an historical background. Immediately after the Second World War the freshness of the memory of the 'Nuremberg Medical Trials' influenced the way in which moral dilemmas were treated in Germany. At the present time no systematic instruction in medical ethics is provided in either unde...

BACKGROUND Medical school curricula have undergone considerable change in the past half century. There is little evidence, however, for the impact of various curricula and educational policies on student learning once incoming performance and the nonrandom nature of students nested within schools has been accounted for. PURPOSE To investigate effects of school variables on United States Medic...