A Curriculum for Excellence outlines a curriculum for young people in Scotland from age 3 to 18. In the report, endorsed wholly by Scottish ministers, much is made of the underpinning values of the proposed curriculum. However, the absence of any consultation period has meant that such values and the report itself have not been subject to systematic debate by parliament, public, or the educatio...

background and objective: residency curriculum development in clinical courses has been initiated in the ministry of health in recent years and the curriculum for internal medicine residency has been completed. regarding the role of critical appraisal in the improvement of these programs, this article will discuss advantages and disadvantages of the curriculum plan for internal medicine.   mate...

based on the current emphasis on competency-based education, as a part of need assessment phase of dental curriculum revision in iran, in the present study the dental graduates' perspective concerning the minimum competency requirements for an iranian general dentist has been investigated.based on the three available major competency documents in the literature a questionnaire was developed in ...

Curriculum policy in many countries has been subject to a distinct shift in emphasis in recent years (Priestley & Biesta, 2013). Following two decades of centralised direction of the content (and even the methods) of the curriculum, there has been a shift to curricular models which emphasis local flexibility in curriculum-making, positioning teachers as autonomous developers of the curriculum. ...

INTRODUCTION Mozambique suffers from a critical shortage of healthcare workers. Mid-level healthcare workers, (Tecnicos de Medicina Geral (TMG)), in Mozambique require less money and time to train than physicians. From 2009-2010, the Mozambique Ministry of Health (MoH) and the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH), University of Washington, Seattle, revised the TMG cur...

BACKGROUND No universal solution, based on an approved pedagogical approach, exists to parametrically describe, effectively manage, and clearly visualize a higher education institution's curriculum, including tools for unveiling relationships inside curricular datasets. OBJECTIVE We aim to solve the issue of medical curriculum mapping to improve understanding of the complex structure and cont...

OBJECTIVES The improvement of safety in healthcare worldwide depends in part on the knowledge, skills and attitudes of staff providing care. Greater patient safety content in health professional education and training programmes has been advocated internationally. While WHO Patient Safety Curriculum Guides (for Medical Schools and Multi-Professional Curricula) have been widely disseminated in l...

When we think of John Dewey and curriculum, The Child and the Curriculum may immediately come to mind—and justifiably for this work, although published in 1902, remains a centerpiece in Dewey's thinking about curriculum. Of course, there are other notable works related to his view of curriculum: some published around the time of The Child and the Curriculum (e.g., The Educational Situation, 190...

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...

BACKGROUND In 2007, our healthcare system established a clinical fellowship program in Pathology Informatics. In 2010 a core didactic course was implemented to supplement the fellowship research and operational rotations. In 2011, the course was enhanced by a formal, structured core curriculum and reading list. We present and discuss our rationale and development process for the Core Curriculum...