“Modified World Café” workshop for a curriculum reform process

Curriculum reform: a narrated journey.

OBJECTIVES Curriculum reform poses significant challenges for medical schools across the globe. Understanding the medical educator's personal and lived experience of curriculum change is paramount. This paper illustrates the use of narrative inquiry as a means of exploring the author's own evolving professional identity as a medical educator engaged in planning and leading curriculum reform and...

Biotechnology Workshop, a Model for Curriculum Enrichment: Investigating Medical Students' Viewpoints

Introduction: In recent years, one of the ways for enriching medical students' curriculum and training them as physician-scientists has been acquainting them with other sciences such as biotechnology. In this study conducted as a workshop for students' acquaintance with biotechnology, medical students' viewpoints towards its advantages was investigated. Methods: A seven day biotechnology works...

Medical Education and Curriculum Reform:

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate criteria by which the principles of curriculum reform can be judged. To this end, the paper presents an overview of standard critiques of medical education and examines the ways medical curriculum reforms have responded to these critiques. The paper then sets out our assessment of these curriculum reforms along three parameters: pedagogy, educational co...

Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform

A Curriculum Reform in Fluid Mechanics for the Millennial Generation

Learning habit of new generations of students growing up with cell phone, social media and video games are significantly different from that of the educators preparing them for the future workplace. Effectiveness of traditional lecture based class room are questioned by educators, parents, industry and government. In the field of science technology engineering and mathematics (STEM), besides cl...