PURPOSE The aim of this study was to examine the background and improvement of the reformed premedical curriculum in Seoul National University and to analyze in which it corresponds with its intentions. It gives implications to premedical curriculum through its development model.
METHODS The background and improvement of the reformed premedical curriculum was analyzed through several reports from those of associated committees. The development model of the reformed curriculum was made in order to examine correspondence with the intentions of its reformation.
RESULTS The graduate credit increased while compulsory credit was in decrease which leads to the elimination of standardized education based on the natural sciences. The requirements in compulsory liberal arts and elective major subjects were suggested in order to develop students' perspectives in humanities.
CONCLUSION As premed is a preliminary course before studying medicine, premedical curriculum should reflect the needs of those parties concerned-society, professors, students, etc.- and be based on core values and educational philosophy of the school in order to derive its competences.
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The results of this study are as following: First, 43.3% out of professors, 70.6% out of residents and 69.4% out of students reply that they don't attain the objective s of classwork, although they finish all their classwork successfully.
Second, most of them reply that classwork is oriented by professors and least participated in by students.
Third, PBL(Problem-based Learning) by small group is very effective to learning.
Fourth, the reasons why clinical clerkship isn't systematic are that there aren't professors-in-charge of clinical clerkship and that the schedule of clinical clerkship is irregular.
Fifth, students' participation in clinical clerkship is not substantial participation, such as interpretation and procedure, but simple observation.
Based on these results the points which the improvement is called for are as follows: First, professors must achieve the objective s of classwork by thorough analysis on those within limited class hours.
Second, it is desirable that they apply learning methods to improve students' thinking by small group activities to their classwork.
Third, professors-in-charge of clinical clerkship are surely needed.
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