Educational Theory &

Practice
Curriculum design

Prof T RangaRao MD
Resource Person
Dr NTR University of Health Sciences
Andhra Pradesh, INDIA
profranga@gmail.com
Importance of Edu Tech
By using teaching and learning methods
based on educational theories and derived
principles, medical educators will become
more effective teachers.
This will enhance the development of
knowledge, skills, and positive attitudes in
their learners, and improve the next
generation of teachers.
Ultimately, this should result in better trained
doctors who provide an even higher level
of patient care and improved patient
outcomes.
Curriculum
“Symbiosis”
necessary for a curriculum
Basic principles of curriculum
Four important questions
What educational purposes should
the institution seek to attain?
What educational experiences are
likely to attain the purposes?
How can these educational
experiences be organised effectively?
How can we determine whether these
purposes are being attained?
Outcomes based curriculum
Situational analysis
External factors Internal factors
Societal expectations Students
and changes Teachers
Community Institutional ethos and
assumptions and structure
values Existing resources
Nature of subject Problems and
disciplines shortcomings in
Nature of support existing curriculum
systems
Expected flow of
resources
Example of statements of intent
Aim
To produce graduates with knowledge and skills for treating
common medical conditions
Objectives
To identify the mechanisms underlying common diseases of
the circulatory system
To develop skills in history taking for diseases of the
circulatory system
Broad outcome
Graduates will attain knowledge and skills for treating
common medical conditions
Students will identify the mechanisms underlying common
diseases of the circulatory system
Students will acquire skills in history taking for diseases of
the circulatory system
Curriculum map
A curriculum map from
the students’ perspective