070627P - CHECK LIST FOR REVIEWING AN UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL CURRICULUM

Presented at a Medical Education Workshop held at the Faculty of Medicine University of Science and Technology Sana’a, Yemen 14-27 June 2007 by Professor Omar Hasan Kasule Sr. MB ChB (MUK), MPH (Harvard), DrPH (Harvard) Professor of Epidemiology and Islamic Medicine at the Institute of Medicine Universiti Brunei Darussalam. WEB: http://omarkasule.tripod.com

1. DESCRIPTION OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE CURRICULUM

2. DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CURRICULUM

3. INTERNAL CURRICULUM REVIEW

3.1 Concurrent informal review

3.2 Formal Faculty Review

3.3 Questionnaire Survey of students and lecturers

4. EXTERNAL CURRICULUM REVIEW

4.1 The Accreditation Committee

4.2 Professional bodies

5. RESULTS OF THE CURRICULUM AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION

5.1 Process measures

5.2 Outcome measures

5.3 The strengths

5.4 Weaknesses

5.5 Need for change:

5.6 How much and what to change