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Developing and analysing a curriculum map in Occupational- and Environmental Medicine.

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Background

During the last 5 years a fundamental curriculum reform was realized at the medical school of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University. In contrast to those efforts, the learning objectives were not defined consistently for the curriculum and important questions concerning the curriculum could not be answered. This also applied to Occupational and Environmental Medicine where teachers of both courses were faced with additional problems such as the low number of students attending the lectures.The aims of the study were to develop and analyse a curriculum map for Occupational and Environmental Medicine based on learning objectives using a web-based database.Furthermore we aimed to evaluate student perception about the curricular structure.

Methods

Using a web-based learning objectives database, a curriculum map for Occupational and Environmental Medicine was developed and analysed. Additionally online evaluations of students for each course were conducted.

Results

The results show a discrepancy between the taught and the assessed curriculum. For both curricula, we identified that several learning objectives were not covered in the curriculum. There were overlaps with other content domains and redundancies within both curricula. 53% of the students in Occupational Medicine and 43% in Environmental Medicine stated that there is a lack of information regarding the learning objectives of the curriculum.

Conclusions

The results of the curriculum mapping and the poor evaluation results for the courses suggest a need for re-structuring both curricula.

SUBMITTER: Hege I

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2944147 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Developing and analysing a curriculum map in Occupational- and Environmental Medicine.

Hege Inga I Nowak Dennis D Kolb Stefanie S Fischer Martin R MR Radon Katja K

BMC medical education 20100914

<h4>Background</h4>During the last 5 years a fundamental curriculum reform was realized at the medical school of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University. In contrast to those efforts, the learning objectives were not defined consistently for the curriculum and important questions concerning the curriculum could not be answered. This also applied to Occupational and Environmental Medicine where teachers of both courses were faced with additional problems such as the low number of students attending the ...[more]

PMID: 20840737

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Developing and analysing a curriculum map in Occupational- and Environmental Medicine.

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Developing and analysing a curriculum map in Occupational- and Environmental Medicine.

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