Eating the Curriculum

Eating the Curriculum

Examines the alimentary metaphor (learning as ingestion) as applied to medical education, and suggests a different educational philosophy. Despite the "full plate" served to medical students, they are starving; fundamental curriculum reform should help physicians become healthy eaters, who...

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Veröffentlicht in:Academic Medicine 1997-03, Vol.72 (3), p.167-72
1. Verfasser: Hunter, Kathryn Montgomery
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Change Strategies
Curriculum
Curriculum Development
Education, Medical
Educational Attitudes
Educational Change
Educational Objectives
Higher Education
Humans
Knowledge
Learning
Learning Processes
Medical Education
Metaphors
Professional Education
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Zusammenfassung:Examines the alimentary metaphor (learning as ingestion) as applied to medical education, and suggests a different educational philosophy. Despite the "full plate" served to medical students, they are starving; fundamental curriculum reform should help physicians become healthy eaters, who feed themselves in appropriate amounts, maintain a healthy skepticism about information they consume, and periodically check information for freshness. (Author/MSE)
ISSN:1040-2446
DOI:10.1097/00001888-199703000-00008