From vision to implementation: Building a national undergraduate paediatric curriculum.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

There are many challenges in ensuring medical students learn paediatrics. Medical educators must develop and maintain curricula that meet learners' needs and accreditation requirements. Paediatricians and family physicians, practicing and teaching in busy clinical environments, require Canadian-relevant curricular guidance and resources to teach and assess learners. Students struggle with curricular cohesion, clear expectations, and resources. Recognizing these challenges and acknowledging the need to address them, the Paediatric Undergraduate Program Directors of Canada (PUPDOC) created canuc-paeds, a comprehensive competency-based undergraduate curriculum that teachers and students would actually use.

Methods

Curriculum development included the following:

SUBMITTER: Bannister SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9113839 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature