BACKGROUND Medical educators have used the hidden curriculum concept for over three decades to make visible the effects of tacit learning, including how culture, structures, and institutions influence professional identity formation. In response to calls to see more humanistic-oriented training in medicine, the authors examined how the hidden curriculum construct has been applied in the English...

The relationship between students' withdrawal and educational variables has generated a considerable number of publications. As the explosion of information in sciences and integration theories led to creating different curriculum designs, it has been assumed that differences among designs explain academic success and, therefore, students' retention. However, little attention has been given to ...

Beyond the adoption of the principles of horizontal and vertical integration, significant planning and implementation of curriculum reform is needed. This report presents two studies done on the medical educational curriculum of Faculty of Medicine (FOM), King Abdulaziz Univerty (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia as well a local experience from FOM, Mansoura University, Egypt. The first study proposed...

With curriculum reform, whether we admit it or not, the first cohort of students will be 'test-driving' the new programme. Not only are they the pioneers of a new curriculum, but as they progress through their studies, they experience each year of the innovation for the first time. As curriculum designers, we learn from their experiences and their feedback to improve the programme content and d...

The disappointments of curriculum theory in practice mostly come from treating curriculum out of context-both conceptually and operationally. Conceptual decontextualization has meant separating curriculum as product (e.g., a document such as a syllabus or course of study, a package of materials accompanied by directions for their use) from curriculum policy-making, design, and use. Operational ...

The purpose for this article is to explore technology education from the perspective of the academic rationalist. Such an exploration is intended to provide information for technology educators who are grappling with education reform since it appears that the reforms of the 1980s are based on academic rationalism curriculum theory. This exploration includes consideration of the theoretical pers...

The purpose of the research is to investigate lecturers' adaptability curriculum innovation and its impact on fundamental comprehensive education training. In order adapt reform, teachers must be prepared for their own role in design implementation, aware program changes values. teaching direction developing learners' capacity; skills practice student-centered strategies. adaptation depends the...