Updates in Medical Colleges’ Curriculum in Iraq

Abstract

Medical colleges are the only places where doctors earn their knowledge and skills for their future career roles in treating patients and helping the community. The curriculum taught in these colleges has a vital role in preparing them for postgraduate continuous education as the sciences in general and medicine in special have been modernized and updated. There are different types of curricula used in Iraqi colleges of medicine, the most prominent one was the traditional subject based. Relatively, the best curriculum used is the summation of the integrated, student-centered, and community-based. The best available way to evaluate the medical curriculum in Iraq is by the certificate of the accreditation standard issues of the National Iraqi Council for Accreditation.

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