Quality concerns relate to teaching and learning methodologies, curriculum content and textbooks, school infrastructure and teacher professional development.
The objectives of this poster are to describe the methodology and curriculum content employed by a senior medical student elective entitled "Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology".
We used an established methodology of curriculum development to design a clinically integrated EBM course with substantial components of e-learning.
Using an established methodology of curriculum development [ 15] we defined explicit learning objectives about knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviour for five teaching modules covering the various EBM steps shown in table 1.
New ideas, new methodologies, new curriculum and new mandates all seemed to rain down on us in the classroom, the very ones who were trying our best to get the best from our students.
"You need to have a methodology and a curriculum that helps you stay current".
Despite various attempts at searching electronic databases for published examples, we could not find relevant literature on the methodology of reviewing curriculum documentation and had to develop our own.
Our methodology for the curriculum design included identification of learning needs in each partner country, formulation of the aims, objectives and learning outcomes, development and organisation of the content of the curriculum, development of the teaching methods, definition of the educational strategy and educational environment, and delineation of an assessment strategy.
By underfunding schools (budgets have been slashed to the bone) and providing little or confusing guidance in issues such as curriculum, methodologies and governance, it is going to ensure that the teachers in the system look bad.
UNICEF supports the development of national standards and frameworks for Early Learning and Development Standards and Child Friendly School Concept and expansion of new approaches in teacher training and instructional methodologies, Life Skills Based Education and curriculum and textbook revision, especially of Mathematics and English language teaching.
