title: Towards the innovation for microbiology curriculum change: students' perception.
abstract: For a medical curriculum to be an effective means of learning for today's students, it has to be designed with knowledge of their priorities, needs and abilities. This can be best achieved by inviting students' view-point during curriculum planning. The present study thus elicits opinion of the medical students through a randomly issued set of questionnaires, towards the present microbiology curriculum in order to quantitate from their view-point, the weakness as well as the strengths of the existing curriculum. Their evaluation reveals that they welcome new techniques like problem-based learning but at the same time emphasise the need to integrate what is taught in close association with clinical circumstance. Hence it is important to understand the minds and needs of our students before implementing the syllabus content across to the consumers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Delhi 110095.
authors.forename: Rumpa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Saha
authors.forename: Shukla
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Das
authors.forename: Iqbal R
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: Kaur
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008829:Microbiology / Q000193:education*; D013337:Students, Medical; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires