OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the views of medical students and residents regarding the practice of professionalism, their perceived challenges, and ideas for the development of a new curriculum in medical professionalism. METHODS Data were collected from four focus groups comprised of 27 residents and medical students recruited from the University of South Florida Mo...

Pharmacy and other health sciences educators have often faced curriculum and assessment issues. However, as expectations for accountability and assessment have continued to grow for higher education institutions, there is increasing concern about the development of assessment plans and the appropriate use of assessment data. A variety of approaches have been used for development of both curricu...

The authors propose that professionalism, rather than being left to the chance that students will model themselves on ideal physicians or somehow be permeable to other elements of professionalism, is fostered by students' engagement with significant, integrated experiences with certain kinds of content. Like clinical reasoning, which cannot occur in a vacuum but must be built on particular know...

Subproject #4 focused on the effects of CBT on curriculum. In all, seven major findings arose out of the empirical data collected. First, it was found that many respondents had some general difficulty in separating the influence of CBT from other influences. Some components of current curriculum practice are closely identifiable with CBT and provide a basis to make judgements about its worth. O...

The Virginia Tech (VT) Department of Computer Science (CS) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) School of Information and Library Science (LIS) are developing curricular materials for digital library (DL) education, appropriate for the CS and LIS communities. Educational modules will be designed, based on input from the project advisory board, Computing Curriculum 2001, ...

Computer Crime and computer related incidents continue their prevalence and frequency, resulting in losses approaching billions of dollars. To fight against these crimes and frauds, it is urgent to develop digital forensics education programs to train a suitable workforce that can effectively investigate computer crimes and incidents. There is presently no standard to guide the design of digita...

In recent years, we have witnessed changing fashions in curriculum policy (Priestley and Biesta 2013) in many countries. A particular trend is an apparent reinstatement of the teacher as an active agent of change in developing the curriculum, seen in a shift from input regulation of the curriculum to output regulation (Kuiper and Berkvens 2013). The former is about tight front-door prescription...

Background There is currently no gold standard for delivery of systems-based practice in medical education, and it is challenging to incorporate into medical education. Health systems competence requires physicians to understand patient care within the broader health care system and is vital to improving the quality of care clinicians provide. We describe a health systems curriculum that utiliz...

For meaningful curriculum change to occur in dental schools, faculty must go through a process of new skills development that will prepare them to teach differently and to assess students differently than they have before. Curriculum change and the faculty development process must have the support of the dental school's leadership and become a core value of the school's culture.