title: Ways to address the challenges of a modern medical curriculum: living academic medicine at the University of Split, School of Medicine.
abstract: Structure of a modern medical curriculum should follow recommendations of professional bodies (like World Federation for Medical Education) in order to educate and train medical professionals equipped with problem solving/critical thinking skills entering a world of evidence-based medicine and demands of contemporary medical practices. Also, political and socio-economic realities in addition to traditional and cultural values should be taken into account in order to avoid creating an unsustainable program. Requests for curricular changes by the European Union Commission were used as a chance to shape our program into an original blend of traditional pre-clinical and clinical subjects with several vertically integrated subjects focusing on mastering clinical skills, professional attitudes, information management and critical as well as evidence-based reasoning and decision making. Reasons for introducing curricular changes in addition to detailed structure of current medical course at the University of Split School of Medicine is presented in this paper.
authors: Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, University of Split, School of Medicine, Soltanska 2, Split, Croatia. ivica.grkovic@mefst.hr
authors: Ivica
authors: I
authors: Grković
authors: Damir
authors: D
authors: Sapunar
authors: Matko
authors: M
authors: Marušić
mesh_terms: D017523:Croatia; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D005062:European Union; D006801:Humans; D012577:Schools, Medical