A new problem-oriented and student-centered curriculum at Michigam State University.
A new problem-oriented and student-centered curriculum at Michigam State University.
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密歇根州立大学以问题为导向、以学生为中心的新课程。
DOI:
10.1097/00001888-197708000-00012
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发表时间:
1977
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通讯作者:
S. Chan
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作者:
R. Echt;S. Chan
The purpose of this paper is to summarize three years' experience with the development and implementation of a new curriculum which represents a significant departure from discipline-based medical programs. This cur-riculum, called Track II, is self-elective and is offered as an alternative to Track I, a more conventional curriculum for the first-and sec-ond-year students. Track II is a five-term se-quence and the largest single interdisciplinary program in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University. The program was implemented as a four-term curriculum in the spring of 1973 for the first Track II student group (19 students) and as a complete five-term sequence in the winter of 1974 for the second Track II student group (50 students). Since 1974 approximately half of each enter-ing class has enrolled in Track II. The central organizational framework for the preclinical curriculum involves using patient problems as themes which allow students to integrate basic concepts and skills of biomedical and behavioral-social sciences.Small-group and peer interactions provide a learning environment which fosters development of problem-solving skills and increasing student responsibilities for peer review and self evaluation of strengths and weaknesses (1). The principal examples of this method were the focal problems course in Track I (2) and McMaster University's program (3). The conceptualization of this approach was based on the college's educational goals which include: life-long self-education, community involvement, early professional experience, integration of the sciences, behavioral-social