Effect of national curriculum reform on medical students' preparedness for practice: a prospective cohort study from undergraduate to postgraduate periods.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In recent years, a national curriculum reform was implemented in undergraduate medical education in Taiwan to reduce clinical rotation training from 3 years to 2 years. The last generation of the old curriculum and the first generation of the new curriculum both graduated in 2019. This study aimed to compare the learning outcomes of the medical students in these two curriculum groups in terms of preparedness for practice during the transition from undergraduate to postgraduate study.

Methods

This was a 3-year prospective, longitudinal, comparative cohort study between 2017 and 2020. Medical students from both the 7-year and 6-year curriculum groups received biannual questionnaire surveys starting 18 months before graduation and running until 11 months after gradua

SUBMITTER: Chaou CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9709741 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature