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Table 5 Curricular Issues in Implementation identified on Focus Group Discussion

From: Problems and issues in implementing innovative curriculum in the developing countries: the Pakistani experience

Students Perceptions

Faculty Perceptions

Community-based learning

·We do not understand what is expected of us in the community.

·Students will greatly benefit from the community - based activities (66%).Since the students will learn in the setting where most of them will practice after graduation they will be better equipped to deal with health problems at the community level (60%).

Problem-based learning

·PBL sessions are enjoyable.

·Students are going to enjoy the PBL method (70%).

·The learning is relevant to our future practices.

 

Participation of students in curriculum planning and development

·It is our future and we have not been consulted.

 

·We are being treated as experimental subjects.

 

·Lack of continuity in institutional policy.

 

Students Assessment

(As there were more than one medical college under the same university, hence the university assessment systems continues to be on the traditional discipline-based pattern)

·“We will be disadvantaged as the students coming from traditional colleges will do better in the exams”.

·Lack of agreement with University regarding evaluation system (54%).

·“The value of the degree may be jeopardized as the teaching methodology is different from other medical institutions of the country”.

 

Resources

·Lack of material for learning through PBL.

·Lack of support staff and stationary (70%).

·Absence of books that follow the problem-oriented approach

·Lack of books in the library (79%).

·Teachers not trained.

 

·Inadequate infrastructure of the college.