We are well convinced that the curriculum
and teaching rriethod which have been used
scientific doctors to meet the needs of the present
society and that ~Df a few decades ahead. Conserva-
tive way of revising medical curriculum by simply
increasing so many hours in some discipline or
adding one more , discipline is no more suitable
to modern medical education.
Present trends in curriculum and teach-
ing method in the U.S.Q., European countries
and Korea have been reviewed and analysed,
emphasing the facts of 1) rapid expansion of the
knowledge in medicine and related disciplines inclu-
ding biophysics, genetics, biostatistics and beha-
vioral sciences v~-hich can easily and conveniently
adopted in medicine and medical care which
the medical educators into an
a limited time of course, 2) controversy between the medical educators desiring the prolongation of the medical education even to the postgraduates in order to produce scientific physicians equippeu with proper knowledge, attitude and skill and government´s authorities facing the country´s cry for more doctors, 3) enhancing the importance of independent study of the medical students for which electives and freq time in the curriculum are very effective, 4) a strong tendency towards integrations of teaching in the U.S.A., Europe and Korea, 5) advantages of multidisciplinary students laboratory providing a `home base´ in the school so that they can either repeat some experiments or perform more so-
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phisticated and organised experiments, 6) > early contact with patients in the clinics and community medicine program,´ 7) spliting of emphasis on medicine and biology which resultantly prod-need new curriculum of, Ulm Universitat leading to 3 different degrees, namely, natural scie!nnsts, human biologists and physicians, and that of Cycle d´ etudes et de´ Recherche ´en I3iologie humaine in France etc., 8) altered teaching methods characterised by returning to old fashioned private tutorial system decreasing the number of formal lectures and by taking advantages of modern electronic devices such as cosaputer and modern means of communications including film and television.
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