Curriculum Development

• Internet Resources Internet Resources for Curriculum Development in Medical Education
  This PDF file is a bibliographic guide to internet resources for curriculum developers and organized into: 1) medical accreditation bodies, 2) topic-oriented resources, 3) general educational resources within medicine, and 4) general education resources beyond medicine. This file was written by Patricia A. Thomas, MD, David E. Kern, MD, MPH and received from the Department of Medicine (PAT, DEK), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
  For more information: http://www.som.tulane.edu/ome/helpful_hints/Internet_JGIM.pdf
   
• Curriculum Development Principles and Guidelines
  This web site describes the principles and guidelines that provided the framework for creating an entirely new curriculum for the University of Rochester Medical Center based on competencies, objectives, outcomes, adult learning principles, modern assessment techniques and continuous improvement.
  For more information: http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/ca/dh/principles.html
   
• Double Helix Curriculum
  Double Helix Curriculum (DHC) weaves basic and clinical sciences through all 4 years like the intertwining stands of the double helix molecule. In the DHC, the clinical strand occupies 30% of the curricular time in Years I and II, and 70% in Years III and IV, with the basic science strand representing the converse. The DHC was implemented by the University of Rochester Medical Center for their entering class of 1999.
  For more information: http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/stdnt/handbook/DoubleHelix.html
   
• The Clinical Presentation Curriculum
  The Clinical Presentation Curriculum emphasizes a careful analysis of the knowledge and skills to be acquired by learners so that it can be presented in a manner most conducive to utilization of this knowledge in subsequent patient problem encounters, and does not necessarily imply problem-based learning methods or prescribe a particular teaching method.
  For more information: http://www.mmh.org.tw/mmsch/clinical_presentiation.htm and
  http://www.med.ucalgary.ca/oemweb/occhlthteaching.htm
   
• Medical School Objectives Project
  These web sites describe the Medical School Objectives Project, which is an initiative designed to reach general consensus within the medical education community on the skills, attitudes, and knowledge that graduating medical students should possess. General competencies include: patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, and interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice.
  For more information: http://www.aamc.org/meded/msop/start.htm and
  http://www.acgme.org/outcome/comp/compFull.asp