title: The Swiss catalogue of learning objectives.
abstract: PBL philosophy may challenge the need for explicit and specific educational objectives in medical education. From a practical point of view, however, such objectives are essential to achieve a close overlap between learning, teaching and assessment. Since the 1970s medical licensing in Switzerland has been based, among other things, on passing a uniform, centrally prepared MCQ exam for the graduates of all five Swiss medical schools. The need for a set of jointly developed learning, teaching and assessment objectives has become apparent. The Joint Conference of Swiss Medical Schools has therefore charged a small taskforce with the development of such a catalogue. This paper describes the background, process and results of this work.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland. Ralph.Bloch@iae.unibe.ch
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bloch
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bürgi
mesh_terms: D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008007:Licensure, Medical; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration; D013557:Switzerland