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ReviewJournal of medical education and curricular development

The Curriculum at the College of Medicine and Medical Sciences at Arabian Gulf University: A Way Forward to Meet the Future Medical Education Needs.

Khalid Mubarak Bindayna, Abdelhalim Deifalla

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Review in Journal of medical education and curricular development. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Khalid Mubarak BindaynaDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain.
Abdelhalim DeifallaDepartment of Anatomy, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0733-4631

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arabian Gulf University (AGU) follows a curriculum based on Problem Based Learning (PBL). PBL is a learner-centered approach that empowers students for life-long learning. Students are taught through problems that are designed based on global health problems customized to the local needs. The classroom teaching is complemented through adjunct programs like community health activities and professional skills program. Medical education aims to meet the changing needs of society. Demographics, disease epidemiology and healthcare needs of the gulf countries have changed over 38 years since the inception of AGU. To keep pace with the changing demands, it is imperative that the curriculum is reviewed in the light of advances in technology and newer techniques of medical education.In the present article the curriculum at AGU is reviewed based on the predictors for future medical education and alternative teaching methods that can be integrated to optimize the student outputs are explored.

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curriculamedical educationproblem-based learning

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PMID32699820
PMCPMC7357019

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