Characteristics/data elements of curriculum schematics posted
- Time constructs – semester, week, etc.
- Topics
- Examinations
- Courses
- Groups/Instructional Blocks
- Clerkships, often at multiple locations
- Non courses – briefings, sessions, practice, conference, seminar
- Postings (like clerkship?)
- Electives
- Training/preceptorships
- Recess/Vacation
- Intersession
- Ceremonies marking points in the curriculum (etsu)
- Orientations at transition points in the curriculum
- Clinical interlude? (ucsf)
- Setting (community-based, other) (nosm)
- Organizational structures (tufts)
- Phases (nosm)
- Longitudinal themes – permeating every course or selectively applied
- Areas of concentration
- Pictoral view
- Hours per course/topic
Schematics reviewed: NUS, Tufts, Mississippi, ETSU, Pitt, UCSF, Wash U, Harvard, Iowa