Five Medical Colleges The Comparative Analysis On The Implementation Of Integrated Curriculum

This paper makes comparison and analysis on implementation of integrated medical curricula in USA. Five universities were selected as representatives:the Western Reserve University, the Harvard University, the University of California San Francisco, the John Hopkins University, and the Illinois University. The paper summarizes their general procedures for medical curriculum integration and supportive measures, looks for typical problems encountered during implementation, analyzes causes that affect current implementation of integrated curriculum in medical education, and discusses potential solutions to facilitate the implementation and improvement of such curricula.There are4parts in this paper.The first part is brief introduction, which introduces the ideas, content and method of this research, defines the relevant concepts of curriculum integration and implementation, and reviews the reform process of medical curriculum in American since1900.From the perspective of the goals of reform, the core content, the main procedure and the reform effect as well as impact, the second part makes a brief introduction of aforementioned five schools’reform processes for integrating curriculum in medical sciences respectively in hope of getting an overall grasp of their reform processes.The third part carries out multi-dimensional analysis and comparisons of above five schools’reform of curriculum integration from the perspective of initial phase, design stage, implementation stage and maintenance stage. At the initial phase, it mainly analyzes the background of reform in different schools; At the phase of design, comparisons are made in terms of the goals of reform, the design process as well as the content of the integrated curriculum; At the phase of execution, comparisons are also carried out concerning the capital, infrastructure and the participation of teachers. At the phase of maintenance, curriculum appraisal and continuous improvement are analyzed; through which, the difficulties confronted during implementing different modes of integrated curriculum as well as the similarities and differences of solutions could be located.The fourth part makes a conclusion. Taking into account the current reality of China, it compares American medical schools’reform and implementation of integrated curricula to learn experiences and experiences from them in order to propose suggestions and countermeasures for major problems met during current domestic reform of integrated curriculum.