This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Curriculum change is a recurring challenge facing most educational teams. Economic austerity has an impact on these processes in that clinical workloads increase and additional funds to drive curriculum change are lacking. We faced significant challenges having to implement substantial changes to the Year 3 and 4 undergraduate curricula in a large teaching hospital in the United Kingdom. The changes are now implemented successfully and we have taken the opportunity to identify factors that allowed us to drive change and achieve our aims. Much has been written about curriculum change as an academic challenge but comparatively little is known about how to drive such change on the ground and strategies to drive curriculum change during times of ongoing financial austerity are lacking. Here, we reflect on our experience and provide tips for educational teams on how to turn change into an opportunity, despite economic austerity and ever-increasing clinical workload.

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10885242PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.15694/mep.2017.000047DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

curriculum change
16
economic austerity
12
educational teams
8
drive curriculum
8
drive change
8
change
7
curriculum
5
twelve tips
4
tips implement
4
implement curriculum
4

Similar Publications

Introduction: The global healthcare system faced unparalleled challenges during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, potentially reshaping antibiotic usage trends. This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge, perceptions, and observations of community pharmacists concerning antibiotic utilization during and after the pandemic; and offer crucial insights into its impact on antibiotic usage patterns and infection dynamics.

Methodology: This cross-sectional study involved 162 community pharmacists in Northern Cyprus.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Estimates and trends in death and disability from atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter due to high sodium intake, China, 1990 to 2019.

BMC Cardiovasc Disord

January 2025

Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences,Hangzhou Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Engineering Research Center of Mobile Health Management System & Ministry of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, 310015, China.

Objective: The effect of sodium intake on atrial fibrillation (AF)/atrial flutter (AFL), with respect to sex and age, has yet to be elucidated. This study aims to compare long-term trends in AF/AFL death and disability due to high sodium intake in China from 1990 to 2019.

Methods: We utilized data from the Global Burden of Disease study to assess the mortality and disability burden of AF/AFL attributable to high sodium intake (> 5 g/d) in China from 1990 to 2019.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Divergent responses of plant multi-element coupling to nitrogen and phosphorus addition in a meadow steppe.

BMC Plant Biol

January 2025

Institute of Grassland Science, School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.

The intricate biogeochemical cycling of multiple elements plays a pivotal role in upholding a myriad of ecosystem functions. However, our understanding of elemental stoichiometry and coupling in response to global changes remains primarily limited to plant carbon: nitrogen: phosphorus (C: N: P). Here, we assessed the responses of 11 elements in plants from different functional groups to global changes.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: The long-term effects of breakfast on childhood z-BMI remain inconclusive.

Objective: To prospectively assess the impact of stable and altered breakfast consumption habits on z-BMI change over two years, in school-aged children across six European countries.

Methods: Data of 6,528 children (8.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Management of melanoma has changed significantly with the discovery of targeted therapies and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). Our aim in the study is to determine which treatment alternatives, specifically dabrafenib plus trametinib and ICIs, are effective in adjuvant therapy and which treatment is effective as first-line metastatic therapy. This retrospective, multicenter study included 120 patients diagnosed with stage IIIB-IIID melanoma receiving both adjuvant and first-line metastatic treatment between 2007 and 2023.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!