Comprehensive curricular goals for teaching transfusion medicine
Comprehensive curricular goals for teaching transfusion medicine
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输血医学教学的综合课程目标
DOI:
10.1046/j.1537-2995.1989.29589284146.x
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发表时间:
1989
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
T. Simon
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作者:
T. Simon
Introduction THE TRANSFUSION MEDICINE Academic Award (TMAA) program, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, provides grants to medical and veterinary schools for the purpose of strengthening the transfusion medicine aspect of each institution’s curriculum. TMAA awardees recognized the need for a standard set of curriculum goals and objectives for the teaching of transfusion medicine in all medical schools, and over a period of 5 years, they identified transfusion medical practice. Working with professional educators from their institutions, they organized a comprehensive transfusion medicine curriculum. (See Appendix for a list of the institutions and persons involved.) From this curriculum was derived a subset of knowledge and skills reasonably attainable within an undergraduate medical curriculum; this subset is presented separately as an undergraduate transfusion medicine curriculum and is identified in the comprehensive curriculum. The comprehensive curriculum covers undergraduate and graduate transfusion medicine education. It was recognized that much of this curriculum will not be taught in parts of the curriculum identified as “Transfusion Medicine.” However, the awardees decided to identify all areas of a medical school curriculum that were directly relevant to transfusion medicine. The challenge, then, is for an institution to pull together these efforts throughout its curriculum in such a way as to make available to the student a rational approach to transfusion therapy. This curriculum is not biased towards any specific teaching method. After a brief statement of purpose, the curriculum is organized into three sections: Curriculum Goals, Student Goals, and Student Objectives. The curriculum goals convey the overall aims of the TMAA curriculum. These may be thought of as instructional goals; they describe, in general terms, the desired impact of curriculum use. The student goals represent a general statement of what students will understand and how they will be able to function as a result of exposure to the curriculum. This statement is categoric in nature and does not refer to specific cognition or skill performance. The student objectives are written as performance-based statements of postinstructional competency. They are presented under 12 topic headings. For each major topic area, a percentage is specified that represents an estimated proportion of the total transfusion medicine curriculum time to be devoted to the topic in an undergraduate medical program. The objectives are written in performance-based language, indicating what the learner is expected to be able to do as a result of the learning experience. This is a standard approach to curriculum design. Objectives are presented in sets, headed by a terminal objective that is followed by enabling objectives. The curriculum is comprehensive and is intended to be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, according to the content division noted above. The items marked with an asterisk represent those aspects of the curriculum that are believed to be essentials for undergraduate medical education. The other objectives may be appropriate as electives for undergraduates, for postgraduate education, or for a more intensive undergraduate experience where time allows. It is the hope of the TMAA awardees that the curriculum will be helpful for planning, developing, reviewing, and evaluating curricula in transfusion medicine education.