The new medical curriculum at Flinders University, South Australia: from concept to reality.
After much discussion and planning, Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia recently introduced a new Graduate-Entry Medical Program (GEMP) which centres on problem-based learning (PBL). We describe the factors that stimulated the development of this new course, discuss its aims and philosophies and provide a brief outline of its structure. Advice and practical help was freely provided by several institutions who had undertaken similarly radical curricular reform and without this, a difficult task would have been much harder. We hope that our experiences will be of interest and help to others who are considering curricular reform.
School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia.
Paul
P
Finucane
Terry
T
Nicholas
David
D
Prideaux