Crossborder curriculum partnerships: medical students' experiences on critical aspects.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The past decade has witnessed an upsurge in medical curriculum partnerships established across national boundaries to offer students at the foreign institution (host) a learning experience comparable to that of students at the exporting institution (home). However, since the learning environments and national healthcare contexts differ greatly between institutions, concerns have been raised in the literature about potential low quality of curriculum delivery, inadequate preparation of students to practice in the host country healthcare setting, and a culture shock for host students having to study a home curriculum.. The experiences and opinions of medical students related to these concerns have not been investigated. This study takes an explorative approach on key chall

SUBMITTER: Waterval D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5992638 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature