Updated ASM Curriculum Guidelines describe core microbiology content to modernize the framework for microbiology education.

ABSTRACT: Curricular guidelines promote standardized approaches to coverage of essential knowledge and skills in undergraduate education. The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Microbiology were developed in 2012. Continuous, rapid growth of knowledge in science and a dynamic, changing world necessitate updates to these guidelines. As such, ASM formed a task force in the summer of 2022. The task force assessed the 2012 ASM Curriculum Guidelines considering advancements in technology, an understanding of an expanded role of microbes, and a broader scope addressing relevant social and environmental aspects of microbiology. Language in the updated guidelines was also modified to better include eukaryotic microbes, viruses, and other acellular microbes. The t

SUBMITTER: Boury N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11636387 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature