UNIVERSITY OF BANJA LUKA Medical Faculty

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UNIVERSITY OF BANJA LUKAMedical Faculty
Curriculum critical review and proposals for
change
Dr Igor Sladojevic Dr Dario Ðukic Dr Gorana
Andic Dr Zorislava Zagorac
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Critical review ingredients

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  Negative
• Positive

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Positive

• Elective courses gt possibility to choose
• No two (or more) semester courses gt easier for
  students
• Early contact with the patients
• Emphasized practical skills

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Positive

• Clinical skills follow up
• Also in XII semester
• Related subjects combined
• E.g., Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
• Some courses reduced or removed
• E.g., Biology
• Continuity of teaching and learning exams
• Small groups
• Improved communication between a teacher and a
  student

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• Negative
• Total number of hours is only 750
• Smallest in the region
• Literature
• Not specified for a number of courses
• Some of the courses are integrated into one
• Should be divided (e.g., Microbiology and
  Immunology)
• Some of the subjects should not be scattered over
  a number of courses
• E.g., Professional Medicine

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Negative

• Not enough hours for some of the very important
  courses
• Otorinolaringology and Ophthalmology
• Courses are overlapping
• Medicine and Society with Social Medicine
• Introduction of Science, Science and Medicine,
  Medicine and Science
• What is the deference??

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Negative

• Definition of a course
• Clinical practice in the I year bedside
  learning?, and in later years
• Elective subjects
• mostly theoretical
• Lack of academic stuff
• Communicational skills in medicine?

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Negative

• Curriculum comitee
• lack of time for the preparation
• lack of people
• lack of financial resources
• lack of communication with some of the professors
  

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CONCLUSION We need more time to make it better