JCDA • www.cda-adc.ca/jcda • December 2008/January 2009, Vol. 74, No. 10 • The publication in 1995 of the Institute of Medicine’s report on the state of dental education, Dental Education at the Crossroads, spelled out what dental leaders already knew — that wholesale curriculum changes were needed to modernize the teaching of dentistry. One suggested solution for curriculum renewal was the ado...

INTRODUCTION As of 2001, the Philippines ranks 7th among the world's 22 countries with a heavy tuberculosis (TB) burden. As the country accelerates its campaign to control the global epidemic, the Philippine Tuberculosis Initiatives for the Private Sector (PhilTIPS) joined the efforts to combat it through the Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) strategy and brought it to the level o...

Evaluation Findings Evaluators found many examples of high-quality crosscurricular projects and, when those were not present, often an academic teacher had integrated technical concepts into lessons. Staff interviewed for the evaluation acknowledged the value of an integrated curriculum and a desire to develop more of it, but admitted that they lacked either the capacity or the time to collabor...

Natural Language Processing techniques (NLP) and the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus have been applied to identify and extract medical concepts from a broad range of biomedical text. "Understanding" medical curriculum content represents a difficult challenge for developers. Curricular documents come in many formats: full-text transcriptions; detailed, textual outlines; extr...

BACKGROUND A Curriculum Task Force proposed problem-based learning as one important educational strategy and recommended changes to a traditional medical curriculum. METHODS This paper describes how a problem-based learning course in neurosciences was developed and has evolved since its inception in the Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. The curriculum planning and design phases are ou...

This paper is a follow-up to our ICADL 2006 paper, reporting on our progress over the past year in developing a digital library curriculum. It presents and describes the current curriculum framework, which now includes ten modules and 41 sub-modules. It provides an overview of the curriculum development lifecycle, and our progress through that lifecycle. In particular, it reports on our evaluat...

INTRODUCTION The Integrative Medicine in Residency (IMR) program, a 200-hour Internet-based, collaborative educational initiative was implemented in 8 family medicine residency programs and has shown a potential to serve as a national model for incorporating training in integrative/complementary/alternative medicine in graduate medical education. INTERVENTION The curriculum content was design...

Faculty members' and students' perceptions concerning the relative importances of (1) various performance criteria for students and (2) strategies of evaluation were determined in 1989 by a questionnaire in a single medical school that had both a problem-based, student-centered curriculum and an organ-block curriculum (i.e., regular track). The greatest differences in the rankings of both areas...

Causes of the Gap between Junior High School Intended, Implemented, and Attained Curricula and Ways of Bridging It   M.A. Jamaalifar* S. Sh. HaashemiMoghadam, Ph.D.** Z. Aabedi Karajibaan, Ph.D.*** A.R. Faghihi, Ph.D.****   To identify the causes of the perceived gap between junior high school intended, implemented, and attained curricula, a group of 30 curriculum planners, 50 educationa...