title: Global sharing, local innovation: Four schools, four countries, one curriculum.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Many internal and external obstacles, must be overcome when establishing a new medical school, or when radically revising an existing medical curriculum.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Twenty-five years after the Flinders University curriculum was introduced as the first graduate-entry medical programme (GEMP) in Australia, we aim at describing how it has been adopted and adapted by several other schools, in Australia and in Europe (UK, Ireland, and Portugal).
  
  
  RESULTS
  This paper reports on the experience of four schools establishing a new medical school or new curriculum at different times and in different settings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We believe that these experiences might be of interest to others contemplating a similar development.
authors.affiliation: a Algarve Medical Centre , Medical Oncology , Faro , Portugal.
authors.forename: Luís
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Castelo-Branco
authors.affiliation: b Graduate-Entry Medical School, University of Limerick , Limerick , Ireland.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Finucane
authors.affiliation: c Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Algarve , Faro , Portugal.|g Manchester Medical School, The University of Manchester , Manchester , UK.
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Marvão
authors.affiliation: d St. George's University of London , London , UK.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: McCrorie
authors.affiliation: c Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Algarve , Faro , Portugal.
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ponte
authors.affiliation: e Prideaux Centre for Research in Health Professions Education, Flinders University , Adelaide , Australia.|f South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute , Adelaide , Australia.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Worley
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D007857:Leadership; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards