Evaluation of curricular relevance and actual integration of sex/gender and cultural competencies by final year medical students: effects of student diversity subgroups and curriculum.

Diversity issues play a key role in medical practice and have recently been more explicitly integrated into undergraduate medical curricula in Europe and worldwide. However, research on students´ perspectives on the relevance and curricular integration of diversity issues, such as sex/gender and culture-sensitive competencies, is still limited. The Charité Berlin (Germany) ran in parallel a traditional and a competency-based medical program.

The modular curriculum of medicine at the Charité Berlin - a project report based on an across-semester student evaluation.

The introduction of a reform clause into the German licensing laws for medical doctors has enabled German faculties to pilot alternative designs for medical degree programmes. The aim of this project report is to outline the curricular features of the modular curriculum of medicine (MCM) at the Charité and to assess the results of its implementation based on a student evaluation across semesters. The MCM was planned and implemented in a competency- and outcome-based manner from 2010-2016 in a faculty-wide process.

Student engagement in medical education: A mixed-method study on medical students as module co-directors in curriculum development.

Beyond participation in evaluation of teaching, there is sparse research available on more active roles of medical students in curriculum development. We report on a model of student engagement where medical students function as module co-directors, and how this is experienced by faculty and student module directors. Student engage in co-development of their curriculum with a high level of autonomy in organizing their activities.