In the field of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) the organization of the knowledge to be taught (curriculum) plays an important role. Different educational theories are used to organize the information, producing as many curriculum models as many ITSs exist. Most of these models are strict, leading to a teaching strategy unable to adapt itself to the student’s learning strengths. In this pape...

Medical ethics education, it has been said, has 'come of age' in recent years in terms of its formal inclusion in undergraduate medical curricula. This review article examines the background to its inclusion in undergraduate curricula and goes on to examine the consensus that has arisen on the design of ethics curricula, using Harden's curriculum and S.P.I.C.E.S models as templates. While there...

The Zuni Life Skills Development Program, an effective community-initiated and high-school-based suicide prevention intervention, is featured. Development and evaluation of this intervention are followed by note of the specific challenges associated with stabilizing the program. A more tribally diverse, culturally-informed model entitled the American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum is...

Institute. Medical Education Development Center, Isfahan university of Medical Sciences. 5000 medical students graduate each year. They are assumed to have enough capabilities to manage common diseases but evidences don't show such capacity. This study was designed to plan a curriculum for Gynecology internship, implement the curriculum and evaluate its effectiveness. Methods. As a survey, all...

Most generic curriculum reform efforts have to deal with a gap between the innovative aspirations of the initial designers and the daily reality of the intended audience of teachers. That tension is not alarming in itself. One might even say that without it no compelling reason for starting development work would exist. Unfortunately, many evaluation studies on the implementation and impact of ...

This paper represents a systematic evaluation of the Core Medical Training Curriculum in the UK. The authors critically review the curriculum from a medical education perspective based mainly on the medical education literature as well as their personal experience of this curriculum. They conclude in practical recommendations and suggestions which, if adopted, could improve the design and imple...