Six Year Carriculum

September 5th 2013

Summary: we have to learn many things before we become a doctor and we learn knowledge structrally; we are building up one knowlege on another. This structural knowlege concept are properly taken into our curriculum.

A chemistry teacher told us about our school's carriculum design. (In my opinion this is not a kind of information talked by a chemistry teacher in a usual lecture because this is related to a whole structure of our six year carriculum not limited to a subject of chemistry. see below.)

Six Years Long Carriculum
module yearSubjects
Clinic Module6Rotation
5Surgeory
4Physician / General Practice
Pre-Clinic Module 3PathologyPathophysiologyPharmacology
Basic Module 2AnatomyBiochemistryPhysiology
1BiologyChemistryPhysics

Note: In my opinion these important bird-eyed carriculum information should be officially delivered by a carriculum leader in charge in Orientation because everybody should know this overall information so that Orientaion was a good opportunity to let everybody know. But they did not mention anything about this overall information in Orientation. Instead a chemistry teacher voluntarily let us know. If he had not taught us we would have lacked this essential information.

An Anthropology Teahcer told us an important thing in another aspect; we learn three classifications of subject. (This is also a topic which should not be talked by a teacher in a usual lecture because it is related to a whole curriculum. )

  1. Basic Science
  2. Clinical Science
  3. Social and Behaviral Science
The two of Basic Science and Clinical Science are corresponding to the table shown above. The third one includes ethics, communication skill and philosophical issue.


Structure of a subject.

This is how we build up our knowledge in a subject; for example Chemistry and Anatomy.

Chemistry
semester yearSubject
4th semester2Medical Biochemistry
3rd semester Biochemistry
2nd semester1Introduction to Biochemistry
1st semester Medical Chemistry

Anatomy
semester yearSubject
4th semester2Nervous System and Sensory Organs
3rd semester Internal Organs
2nd semester1Locomotor System
1st semester None


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