Dear colleagues,
It has been a hectic and yet very fruitful 3 days when all of us were being engaged in an initial step towards shaping up the future of our medical curriculum. As a matter of fact, it's indeed a step forward making future medical students to become five-star physicians who are more etiquette-savvy, among other attributes, than ever before.
Before a full report of the workshop comes out, I just try to make a small contribution to this gigantic task by creating this blog page so that every has a chance to share his/her views before everything we brainstormed during the workshop is put to a futile oblivion in a matter of days and weeks. Quite a few of us were vocal during plenaries, many during small group sessions and yet there are a lot more who were silent listeners throughout the workshop. Now that you can assess my blog page and be free and even remain annonymous to critique, comment and raise issues in regards to the workshop per se and the integration process. You may even give a website, url etc where one can visit to learn what other institutions are doing regarding integration.
I hope every one is willing to partcipate this blog portfolio.
Thank you.
Cheers and all the best.
Than Winn,
Assoc Prof., FOM, UiTM, Shah Alam Campus.
BTW, it's free of charge and no strings attached.
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The Faculty held a number of workshops (at least 5) in Years 2003 and 2004 for developing the curriculum. The first major Curriculum Review Workshop (CRW) was held in the beginning of Year 2005.Then Curriculum Development Sessions were held on almost every Tuesday for a period of almost 2 years to develop the Phase III curriculum. The second and third CRWs were held in Years 2006 and 2007. A number of related workshops such as PBL and ECE workshops were also held during these years to fine tune the curriculum and to find way for its implementation. With the grace of God, based on this curriculum the Faculty got accreditation straight for 5 years and first batch of students graduated in May this year.
Now is a step ahead – the integration. There are two points which we should consider at the outset:
First the scope of integration. To me it is not only Phase I & Phase II; it involves all Phases of the Curriculum thus requiring clinicians to take an active part as well.
The level of integration. A number of different levels of integration have been identified in the literature. We need to choose the most appropriate for our curriculum.
Thanks.
Dr. Alam Sher Malik
Dear Folks,
Ive posted Springer's web page allowing you to access all related to integrated medical curriculum. One of my most interested article is
Strategies for Integrating Basic Sciences
in Curriculum
Hallie Groves
Kindly review and paste your comments on the blog.
A medical school where dolls do the teaching;
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http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/11/11_ap_mannequinschool/?rsssource=1
Is it possible to use this blog as a medium for teaching ? I have created my own blog but yet to be official . It is just to share my knowledge with students
Salmi
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