The great-books philosophy is rooted in the belief that classics provide a broader, richer education than the prevailing fragmented curriculum.
The prevailing trend in basic science curriculum changes around the world is now towards integration, both horizontally among the disciplines and vertically between basic and clinical sciences [ 1- 4].
Since the prevailing trend in basic science curriculum changes is now towards integration, demonstrating this experience of upgrading the integration level within the pre-clerkship curriculum and documenting its effectiveness could be helpful for medical schools that are willing to enhance integration levels in their curriculum.
Sesame Street was designed around the prevailing view that preschoolers had short attention spans, so its curriculum was a magazine-like format in which each episode was made up of a variety of segments.
Using a semi-structured questionnaire, we collected information on the content and distribution of nutrition instruction throughout the curriculum, the number of hours devoted to nutrition, the years of the curriculum in which nutrition was taught, and the prevailing teaching methods.
Our undergraduate curriculum is designed to give you a sophisticated understanding of the fundamental principles and prevailing and emerging approaches to biology with particular emphasis on molecular and cellular biology.
The assessment focused on five major variables: 1) the nutrition content in the training curriculum; 2) the distribution of nutrition instruction throughout the curriculum; 3) the status of nutrition courses; 4) the nutrition instruction time; and 5) the prevailing training delivery methods.
While that agenda may sound neutral to the uninitiated, it speaks to growing resentment toward the prevailing reform rhetoric pushed by the White House and many politicians: corporate-oriented "standards" and "management," leading to a test-heavy curriculum focused on math and reading at the expense of all else.
Additional lessons have been learned during the last 5 years of the curriculum and are best appreciated in the context of the competency-based medical education model which will be the prevailing education model for the foreseeable future [52, 53].
Perhaps the prevailing climate mattered.
Is that the prevailing view?
