Medical students' evaluations of curriculum innovations at ten North American medical schools

Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
R H Ross, H V Fineberg

Abstract

The authors recount medical educators' calls in the 1980s to reform general professional medical education by supplementing the standard lecture-lab biomedical curriculum with new biopsychosocial pedagogy and emphases. They then report selected medical students' evaluations of corresponding curriculum reform efforts that were in place by 1990 at eight U.S. and two Canadian medical schools known for being innovators. From interviews conducted in 1992-93 with a group of three to nine medical students at each school, the authors report two findings. First, the students' positive evaluations converged: at all ten schools they invariably appreciated curriculum reform efforts of any sort that encouraged individuation, connection, and diversity. Second, the students' negative evaluations diverged: specifically, those enrolled at the smaller schools with more distinctly teaching-service missions, schools where innovation was more wholesale, even extending across the entire curriculum, objected to curricula that provide too much in the way of new pedagogy and emphases and too little standard instruction; conversely, those enrolled at the larger schools with more comprehensive teaching-research-service missions, schools where innovation ...Continue Reading

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