BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In the last two decades, the curriculum in medical education has changed so as to maintain its efficiency and effectiveness. Considerable changes are underway in many medical colleges worldwide. This study assessed the current status of the undergraduate curricula in the medical colleges of the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) countries, in relation to the SPICES (studen...

Changes in society and dissatisfaction with current educational practices have led to changes in undergraduate veterinary curricula. New approaches that are thought to better prepare students for future professional veterinary practice are being introduced. One such change is a transition from conventional teacher-centred curricula to student-centred curricula. In student-centred curricula, stu...

In this paper, we present a system called ATIC, for generating and using individualized curricula. Each curriculum is based on an extended precedence graph overlay model, which supports conjunctions and disjunctions of concepts. A student model stores a complete information about each student. A curriculum created with ATIC supports adaptive tutoring; that is, ATIC will change the presentation ...

Objective: Conflicts of interests resulting from interactions with pharmaceutical companies are pervasive in medicine and can result in an undue influence on physicians' decision-making. The objective of this systematic review is to analyze published and scientifically evaluated curricula for medical students and residents regarding such conflicts of interest. We begin by describing the covered...

The Association for Computing Machinery and the Association for Information Systems publish guidelines for undergraduate programs in software engineering and information systems (model curricula). While design is a core topic in both disciplines, this paper reveals that both model curricula omit core design topics. Coding the model curricula using concepts from Herbert Simon’s suggested topics ...

Drug abuse is prevalent in all countries across the world and  induces variety of adverse effects (1). Health problems arising from drug abuse commonly cause significant health challenges in the affected population and deteriorate many aspects of the patients’ performance and quality of life. Comorbidities are discovered in 60 to 75% of addict patients, suffering from various drug-related disor...

Increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary research and education requires researchers and learners to build links between distinct disciplines. In engineering education, work on integrated curricula to help learners build connections between topics began with three programs in 1988. Integrated curricula have connections to a larger movement in higher education— learning communities, which help l...