Curriculum

Medical Curriculum in India to change says Health Minister

Union Health Minister in India proposes to change the curriculum for medicine by integrating modern and traditional practices and hopes to implement it within two years. "Today's medical curriculum is outdated. We are working // towards integration of both the modern and traditional practices in the new curriculum. It is expected to come out within two years time," said health ministe...

Medical community worried that new curriculum will 'Promote Quackery'

Leading medical bodies in India have criticized the recent announcement of health minister to change the undergraduate medical curriculum. Mr.Vinay Agarwal, Secretary of Indian medical Association // that has over 150,000 doctors as members said: "The idea of adding ayurveda, unani and homoeopathy subjects in the already over-crowded medical curriculum is not going to help anybody,"...

Substance Abuse Prevention Messages Better Received Among Teenagers in the Form of Media Campaigns and Curriculum

According to the new study a well designed community campaign can dramatically cut marijuana and alcohol use among young teens. The study was conducted in 32 schools in 16 communities around the country.// As a result of this campaign half the number of students who began using marijuana and alcohol during the two years of the project stopped the habit when compared to students in communi...

Students in Pakistan Protest Against Dance, Music in Curriculum

Eight Pakistani student organisations have launched a campaign against Punjab University's (PU) move to introduce studies in dance, music and theatre, saying //'enlightened moderation' is sought to be injected into Islamic society at the behest of 'foreign masters'. Posters and handbills, announcing the campaign have been brought out in Lahore by Islami Jamaiti Talaba (IJT), the youth...

Problem-Based Learning Curriculum a Success for Medical School

Knowledge in the medical field changes so rapidly that by the time students graduate, many are already behind in the latest medical knowledge. //In an effort to address this issue, the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine adjusted its curriculum 13 years ago, and a recent study has shown that the adjustment was a success. "At that time there were national voices calling f...

Yoga, to Be Included in Schools as Part of the Curriculum

There is some good news in the air. To tackle obesity in school children, and inculcate the practice of yoga from very young, a proposal to include yoga in the// school curriculum was put forward, which has received the green signal from the HRD ministry. While announcing this piece of good news, Union minister A Ramadoss said,"Yoga can go a long way in reducing hypertension and diabe...

HIV/AIDS Prevention in Caribbean Schools Curriculum

Education ministers from the Organization of East Caribbean States (OECS) have said schools// of member-countries will add HIV/AIDS prevention studies to their respective curricula. Arsen James, education minister of St. Lucia, said the pandemic has raised concern of great magnitude in the region where, according to UN statistics, the year 2006 saw 170,000 new cases of infection and f...

Cognitive Skills Focused Curriculum may Lessen Kids' Behavioural Problems

A recent research has found that curriculum focused on cognitive skills may improve child behaviour. According to a recent study in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences children who were taught a curriculum that focused on self-discipline and consideration of their own and others' emotions were found to display greater social competence and less behavioural and emotional prob...