In 2016, the Commission on Dental Competency Assessments (CDCA) — formerly the North East Regional Board of Dental Examiners (NERB) — will administer a new dental licensing exam format in Florida. This new model, the Patient Centered Curriculum Integrated Format — also known as the “Buffalo Model” — modifies the traditional Curriculum Integrated Format (CIF) exam to provide additional focus on ...

47 1092-5171/03/3001-0047 ABSTRACT: Some current educational reforms (U.S. Department of Education, 2002) focus on preparing students for mandated testing. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 1997) requires education agencies to provide students with disabilities with the opportunity to participate in testing. Speech-language pathologists face the challenge of helping student...

The authors describe the development of the undergraduate medical curriculum at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, especially over the last 15 years, when they led the Curriculum Committee. They describe the principles that have guided the curriculum development process up to this day; how the competency outcomes were designed and evolved as well as the main influences on the process; how th...

The purpose of this article is to share a competency-based method of job analysis known as DACUM (Develop A CUrriculuM) that provides a credible and defensible framework for developing job descriptions, identifying training needs, and prioritizing staff development initiatives. The process capitalizes on the power of group synergy, interaction, and consensus and facilitates employer/employee bu...

Globalisation has demanded expert labour markets, diversified skills, and high levels of vocational education. To refine the skills knowledge people is central to gaining sustaining economic empowerment, particularly in context continuing globalisation. CBT based on specific, measurable objectives related directly instructional activities. In favourable situations settings, The passage discusse...

It delivers an expansive and innovative approach to devising practical methods of optimizing technology to foster quality of patient care and support population health initiatives. Based on the requirements of the DNP Essential IV Core Competency for Informatics and aligning with federal policy health initiatives, including the Affordable Care Act, the book describes models of information techn...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Physical examination (PE) skills among U.S. medical students have been shown to be deficient. This study examines the effect of a Web-based physical examination curriculum on first-year medical student PE skills. METHODS Web-based video clips, consisting of instruction in 77 elements of the physical examination, were created using Microsoft Windows Moviemaker softwar...

Lifelong learning is an essential trait that is expected of every physician. The CanMeds 2005 Physician Competency Framework emphasizes lifelong learning as a key competency that physicians must achieve in becoming better physicians. However, many physicians are not competent at engaging in lifelong learning. The current medical education system is deficient in preparing medical students to dev...

Managing the change from traditional to problem-based learning (PBL) curricula is complex because PBL employs problem cases as the vehicle for learning. Each problem case covers a wide range of different learning issues across many disciplines and is coordinated by different facilitators drawn from the school's multidisciplinary pool. The objective of this project was to adapt an interactive co...

This is a reflective essay based on the experience of developing a structure and function module within a new integrated medical curriculum. Our hope is that the insights we gained during a 4-yr journey in a new medical school will be transferable to others engaged with curriculum development. Here, we present an interpretive analysis of our personal experiences together with some original rese...