A major curriculum revision involving the utilization of problem-based learning was implemented at Indiana University School of Dentistry in the summer of 1997. Two of the main goals of this new student-centered curriculum were to promote critical thinking skills and to encourage a desire for lifelong learning, both of which were anticipated to increase student use of the library. This study ex...

Curriculum development does not just happen, it needs to be carefully designed; to be effective it needs to be written and implemented for the time and the society that it is intended; that is, it needs to be developed for the present and at the same time move towards the future rather than as a leftover from the past (Bobbitt 1918:1972; Eisner 1992; Peddiwell, Benjamin and Benjamin 1939). Ther...

OBJECTIVE To determine the successful implementation and effectiveness of program-level learning outcomes for a 4-year bachelor of science pharmacy degree program. METHODS A comprehensive and iterative program evaluation framework was implemented and quantitative and qualitative data were gathered. RESULTS The critical factors in the successful development and implementation of program-leve...

Faced with the challenge of restructuring a preclinical curriculum to provide a stronger background in general dentistry, a clinical simulation program that emphasizes critical thinking in clinical decision-making was developed and implemented at New York University College of Dentistry. The program offers an integrated program in clinical sciences focused on the faculty-defined outcomes for a ...

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...

Educate to Eradicate is a K-12 curriculum project using termite biology and control as the basis for science education that has been implemented in over 350 Hawaii public school classrooms. To encourage sustained implementation of the project, we aimed to identify factors that influence the adoption and continuation of pest management curricula in public school classrooms. Regression analysis o...

This study examined whether students' attitudes about community health practice, attitudes toward people who are indigent and homeless, and perceived leadership skills changed after participation in a planned interdisciplinary community health experience with an urban homeless or formerly homeless population. Data were collected from medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, an...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The transition to clinical clerkships can be challenging for medical students. In the context of a formal clinical curriculum redesign, a curriculum team led by family physicians systematically planned and implemented a 3-week course to prepare new third-year students for specialty-specific clerkships. METHODS Informed by a formal needs assessment, we developed a cla...

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We report on a project that investigates the use of engineering as a context in which to learn mathematics through an evaluation of a LEGO-based robotics curriculum. We performed a content analysis of the curriculum in order to identify the types of mathematics topics that students would have an opportunity to learn, and investigated the extent to which those topics were aligned with national m...