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ArticleJournal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR2013

Planning an objective and need based curriculum: the logistics with reference to the undergraduate medical education in biochemistry.

Ramesh Ramasamy, Niranjan Gopal, A R Srinivasan, Sathish Babu Murugaiyan

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Article in Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Ramesh RamasamyProfessor & Head, Department of Biochemistry.
Niranjan Gopal
A R Srinivasan
Sathish Babu Murugaiyan

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6 · The paper itself

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purposeThe medical education is recently being transformed into several domains in order to adapt to the need and the value based academics which is required for the quality doctors who serve the community. Presently, the biochemistry curricula for the graduate students of medicine have been questioned by as many experts, because of their multiple lacunae. In this review, we would like to highlight the scenario which is related to the existing biochemistry curricula for graduate medical students, which have been followed in several medical schools and universities and we also hope to share our ideas for implementing objective and pragmatic curricula. Evidence based research, wherein the articles which are related to innovative teaching-learning tools are collected and the pros and cons which are related to the different methods analyzed in biochemistry point of view.

conclusionRapid changes in the content of the curriculum may not be required, but a gradual introduction of the novel approach and the methods of teaching biochemistry can be adopted into the curriculum.

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BiochemistryCurriculumMedical education

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PMID23634431
PMCPMC3616591

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