Their report, Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians (SFFP; AAMC-HHMI, 2009), encouraged a shift from undergraduate curricula composed of a strict list of traditional science courses to curricula emphasizing a set of broad competencies that could be achieved with a more innovative, flexible approach.
'Traditional' medical curricula must be responsive to global paradigm shifts in undergraduate medical education.
In particular, they may cause science-interested minorities to shift out of undergraduate STEM fields because of the difficulties of competing with students with stronger academic preparation.
The last re-organisation of the health service (1991) saw many doctors take roles in NHS management and in specialist clinics and there has been a shift of medical undergraduate education to the community.
We anticipate that by creating instructor-learning communities committed to teaching students with active learning, the MALT program will build individual instructors' competence and support a shift in the undergraduate biology paradigm.
Chemical Engineering, similar to other Engineering courses, has seen an undergraduate gender shift in recent years towards greater women student representation.
A dramatic shift in chemical engineering undergraduate education has been proposed based on NSF-funded, discipline-wide workshops that took place in 2003.
Some of the financial support for undergraduate teaching has shifted from direct government financing to school fees.
One of the key findings of the report is that the fall in language undergraduate degrees has shifted from an issue concentrated among part-time students, to a problem now among full-time students.
Program such as these have the potential to shift the career choices that undergraduates make.
