introduction: early clinical exposure has been conceptualized to orient medical students towards actual clinical scenario and help them correlate their theoretical knowledge with real life situations in early years of mbbs courses. in the present study we explored the outcome of early clinical exposure in the context of basic science topics (physiology) in fresh mbbs entrants and compared their...

Introduction: Despite the importance of curriculum analysisfor internal refinement of a programme, the approach for sucha step in under-described in the literature. This article describesthe analysis of the medical curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine,University of Gezira (FMUG). This analysis is crucial in the eraof innovative medical education since introducing new curriculaand curricular ch...

BACKGROUND Practice management education continues to evolve, and little information exists regarding its curriculum design and effectiveness for resident education. We report the results of an exploratory study of a practice management curriculum for primary care residents. METHODS After performing a needs assessment with a group of primary care residents at Wright State University, we desig...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES An informatics curriculum was developed by integrating evidence-based medicine, communication and behavioral sciences, patient education, and computer skills. Introduction of an electronic medical record (EMR) to our family practice center was a focal point of this training. Our objective was to measure whether the new curriculum improved our residents' informatics ski...

Whilst the link between access, quality of schooling and gender equality in promotion Education for All is vital, the problematic nature of this agenda for the curriculum in developing countries is not sufficiently recognized. Previous sociological research indicates the contradictions between the social reproductive elements and the egalitarian potential of a ‘globalised curriculum’ especially...

The implementation of an implant dental curriculum in U.S. dental schools has been consistently increasing from 33 percent in 1974 to 97 percent in 2004. Among these, only 51 percent have clinical components implemented. A survey of students conducted in 2004 at New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) showed an inadequacy in clinical implant restoration experience by graduation. This p...

INTRODUCTION The faculty of Medicine, (FOM) Makerere University Kampala was started in 1924 and has been running a traditional curriculum for 79 years. A few years back it embarked on changing its curriculum from traditional to Problem Based Learning (PBL) and Community Based Education and Service (COBES) as well as early clinical exposure. This curriculum has been implemented since the academi...

OBJECTIVE Describe the association of USMLE Step 1 scores and the institution of a dedicated board review curriculum with resident performance on the Otolaryngology training examination. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cross sectional study. METHODS We reviewed American Board of Otolaryngology Training Examination (OTE) scores for an otolaryngology residency program between 2005 and 2016. USMLE ...

1Learning Research andDevelopmentCenter, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2Educational Studies, GhentUniversity, Ghent, BE 3Department of Teacher Professional Development, University of Twente, Enschede, TheNetherlands Correspondence SusanMcKenney,DepartmentofTeacher ProfessionalDevelopment,University ofTwente, Enschede, 7500AE,TheNetherlands. Email: [email protected] Abstr...

A number of national reports, including Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action, have called for drastic changes in how undergraduate biology is taught. To that end, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has developed new Curriculum Guidelines for undergraduate microbiology that outline a comprehensive curriculum for any undergraduate introductory microbiolo...