Professionalism is one of the core competencies to be taught and evaluated during residency. A review of the literature suggests that professionalism is not completely understood or practiced. The teaching of professionalism has been incorporated into the educational programs for residents. However, residents learn from two curriculums: the stated curriculum and a hidden curriculum. The hidden ...

introduction: nursing curriculum is not always overt; it can also exist covertly in the form of a hidden curriculum. this study aims to explain the factors influencing learning through the hidden curriculum in the perspective of undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students. method: this qualitative study was conducted through purposeful sampling strategy on 24 undergraduate baccalaureate nursin...

BACKGROUND Medical educators have used the hidden curriculum concept for over three decades to make visible the effects of tacit learning, including how culture, structures, and institutions influence professional identity formation. In response to calls to see more humanistic-oriented training in medicine, the authors examined how the hidden curriculum construct has been applied in the English...

BACKGROUND The hidden curriculum represents influences occurring within the culture of medicine that indirectly alter medical professionals' interactions, beliefs and clinical practices throughout their training. One approach to increase medical student awareness of the hidden curriculum is to provide them with readily available examples of how it is enacted in medicine; as such the purpose of ...

Introduction: Nursingcurriculum is not always overt; it can also exist covertlyin the form of a hidden curriculum. This study aims to explain the factorsinfluencing learning through the hidden curriculum in the perspective ofundergraduate baccalaureate nursing students.Method: This qualitative study was conducted through purposeful samplingstrategy on 24 undergraduate baccalaureate nursing stud...

curriculum. The hidden curriculum is the set of values that students learn from, no matter what we have decided to teach them. As our trainees go through medical school and then postgraduate training, they watch and learn from a whole range of doctors, something often denied to us later in our careers. This exerts a powerful influence over what behaviour is acceptable as a doctor, usually more ...

Three components have been described in a teaching-learning environment: what is planned by administrators for the students, what is really delivered to the students, and what is actually experienced by the students [1]. What is experienced by students is different from what is planned by administrators in the universities. Three main types of curricula were defined by Hafferty: formal curricul...