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SynthesisBMC medical education2019

Curriculum management/monitoring in undergraduate medical education: a systematized review.

Tahereh Changiz, Nikoo Yamani, Shahram Tofighi, Fatemeh Zoubin, Batool Eghbali

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Synthesis in BMC medical education, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. Practical Guide to Undergraduate Medical Curriculum Alignment and Mapping.Advances in medical education and practice · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Tahereh ChangizMedical Education Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Nikoo YamaniMedical Education Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Shahram TofighiHealth Management Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Fatemeh ZoubinMedical Education Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Batool EghbaliMedical Education Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. b73.eghbali@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7313-6257

Funding

Isfahan Medical Education Research Center project No. 395791National Agency for Strategic Research in Medical Education, Tehran, Iran grant No. 960283
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMonitoring and management of undergraduate medical education (UME) curricula are crucial contributors to successful medical education. This systematized review explores the different approaches that medical schools have to UME curriculum management or monitoring in order to provide a basis for curriculum managers.

methodsPubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, and ERIC were searched with no time limitation using the keywords curriculum, medicine, management, monitoring, and alignment. Advanced search options and Boolean operators 'AND' and 'OR' were also used to find more relevant records.

resultsFrom a total of 673 records, 14 articles along with 7 papers from hand searching and snowballing were included in the review. Documents were categorized into 3 groups of UME curriculum management: developing computerized tools, surveying curriculum stakeholders and reviewing curriculum documents, and introducing managerial structures.

conclusionsDifferent approaches are reported for UME curriculum management/monitoring at different levels. Managerial structures and computerized tools are most frequently used at the college level because of the large number of faculty members who are responsible for the UME curriculum delivery and the large amount of complex curriculum information. Surveys and reviews of curriculum documents are used mostly to manage a part of a UME curriculum or to monitor teaching of a certain subject during all or some of the educational years.

Indexed as

Education, Medical, UndergraduateSchools, MedicalClinical CompetenceCurriculumHumansCurriculum managementCurriculum monitoringSystematized reviewUndergraduate Medical Education (UME)

Identifiers

PMID30782156
PMCPMC6381649

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