Problem-based learning is an educational method characterized by utilization of problems involving patients as a context for students to learn problem-solving skills and acquire knowledge about basic and clinical science. It is a core curriculum in the new pathway of educational reform. Chang Gung University and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital began a program of educational reform in 1998. However...

This article describes a mixed methods conceptual framework for evidence-based dentistry to enhance the curriculum at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry. A focus of recent curriculum reform has been to prepare students to integrate evidence-based dentistry into clinical practice. The authors developed a framework consisting of four conceptual phases to introduce curricu...

Exact parallels can be drawn between the shortcomings in medical education in the US in the 80s and those prevalent in Japan today. Research and clinical practice had primacy over teaching, and primary care medicine, with its focus on humanistic principles, was subordinated to specialization and tertiary care. US medical schools undertook a wide-ranging reform of the traditional curriculum, rec...

OBJECTIVE To survey medical graduates from the University of Hong Kong on how well they perceived their learning needs had been fulfilled by the old (before 1997) and the new (after 1997) curricula. DESIGN Retrospective questionnaire survey. SETTING The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Medical graduates from the University of Hong Kong who graduated between 1997 and 2006 w...

BACKGROUND Heidelberg Medical School underwent a major curricular change with the implementation of the reform curriculum HeiCuMed (Heidelberg Curriculum Medicinale) in October 2001. It is based on rotational modules with daily cycles of interactive, case-based small-group seminars, PBL tutorials and training of sensomotor and communication skills. For surgical undergraduate training an organis...

would identify similar themes if they asked the same questions and used the same data collection tools [3]. We were left feeling we knew nothing about curriculum reform at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. How does this differ from change at our own medical school, or that of the Chief Editor, or indeed any other institution? Surely the local context must have some relationship with the tr...

The need for curricular reform in K-4 mathematics is clear. Such reform must address both the content and emphasis of the curriculum as well as approaches to instruction. A longstanding preoccupation with computation and other traditional skills has dominated both what mathematics is taught and the way mathematics is taught at this level. As a result, the present K-4 curriculum is narrow in sco...

With the increase of international cultural exchange, training and strengthening college students’ cultural cognitive ability is a burgeoning research subject in today’s foreign language teaching profession of colleges and universities. Cross-cultural communication skills and cultural cognition abilities have become an important measure of the ability of the modern language talents. This paper ...