INTRODUCTION Nursing curriculum is not always overt; it can also exist covertly in the form of a hidden curriculum. This study aims to explain the factors influencing learning through the hidden curriculum in the perspective of undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students. METHODS This qualitative study was conducted through purposeful sampling strategy on 24 undergraduate baccalaureate nursi...

BACKGROUND The implicit "hidden curriculum" strongly influences medical students' perceptions of the importance of patient-centeredness. A new instrument, the Communication, Curriculum, and Culture Survey (C3), already used to assess this hard-to- access part of the curriculum in the US, has potential for use in cross-cultural comparisons. OBJECTIVE To use the C3 to perform a pilot cross-cult...

O ptimum dental school student learning integrates biomedical science and clinical dentistry and provides numerous examples of their application and relation to life and dental practice. While the formal curriculum is the nucleus for learning, the largely uncatalogued “hidden” curriculum is the source of important out-of-class learning experiences and provides much of dental education’s real-li...

PROBLEM ADDRESSED In 2006, leaders of undergraduate family medicine education programs faced a series of increasing curriculum mandates in the context of limited time and financial resources. Additionally, it became apparent that a hidden curriculum against family medicine as a career choice was active in medical schools. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM The Shared Canadian Curriculum in Family Medicine ...

The present paper starts an investigative process of the characteristics educational reality which is hidden from sight uninformed participant, but has a decisive role in school curriculum. This represented by one least studied concepts today theory and practice, that term By its multifaceted ways relating to other types curricula, curriculum determined architecture factors determines attaining...