Methods Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) are specific statements that describe the knowledge, skills and attitudes that students are expected to learn at the successful completion of the curriculum. They provide the students with what to expect of the program and themselves. SLOs also assist in programmatic review, evaluation and improvement of the curriculum. As a result of their extensive rol...

This paper examines the process and outcome of a major curriculum update for the Office Information Systems (OIS) major in the Office Information Systems Department in the School of Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS) at Pace University. The curriculum was updated to better prepare our students for success as end-user specialists in today’s flattened organizations. The changes made ...

CONTEXT As part of curriculum evaluation, management and quality assurance strategies, many undergraduate medical schools are in the process of constructing computer-based curriculum maps. METHODS A survey was distributed to Canadian and UK medical schools to determine the current status, characteristics, and challenging and successful aspects of their efforts in curriculum mapping. Quantitat...

Th e Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney has recently undertaken signifi cant undergraduate curriculum reform aimed at reducing the number of similar, overlapping units of study and increasing the opportunities for disciplinary mingling at an undergraduate level. Th is paper presents some preliminary fi ndings concerning the impact of curriculum change in the context of a sin...

INTRODUCTION Despite the importance of curriculum analysis for internal refinement of a programme, the approach for such a step in under-described in the literature. This article describes the analysis of the medical curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Gezira (FMUG). This analysis is crucial in the era of innovative medical education since introducing new curricula and curricul...

OBJECTIVES In this study, we examine the impact of a school-based curriculum designed to reduce violence among urban sixth-grade students. METHODS This study used a staggered implementation design in which sixth-graders in six middle schools were taught an 18-session violence-prevention curriculum during either the fall or spring semester. Outcome measures were completed at the beginning, mid...

JCDA • www.cda-adc.ca/jcda • December 2008/January 2009, Vol. 74, No. 10 • The publication in 1995 of the Institute of Medicine’s report on the state of dental education, Dental Education at the Crossroads, spelled out what dental leaders already knew — that wholesale curriculum changes were needed to modernize the teaching of dentistry. One suggested solution for curriculum renewal was the ado...

BACKGROUND Changes in medical education require a rethinking of our training paradigm. We implemented a protected block curriculum for postgraduate year (PGY)-1 and PGY-2 surgery residents. HYPOTHESIS A protected block curriculum promotes adult learning consistent with the 6 competencies. DESIGN Prospective static-group comparison with pretesting and posttesting. SETTING Medical College o...

background and purpose: adequate evidence based medicine (ebm) knowledge and skills are required to provide up-to-date, high quality medical care to patients. unfortunately, achieving these skills and knowledge requires a prolonged learning process and constant exposure to ebm concepts. the adult learning theory holds the assumption that adults learn better in a problem based and collaborative ...