Medical Education Research and Development Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia.
Med Teach. 2011;33(2):99-104. doi: 10.3109/0142159X.2010.507711. Epub 2010 Sep 27.
Integration of curriculum is meant to make the teaching/learning activities meaningful; however, the interpretation of 'integration' varies in different institutions and among individuals. Many medical schools find it hard to change their existing curriculum or develop a new integrated curriculum mainly because of lack of will, infrastructure and understanding the process of change.
Drawn from experience, these 12 tips relating to staff development, establishing working groups, organizing the teaching/learning materials under themes and developing some innovative teaching/learning and assessment strategies, are the techniques that a teaching institution can use to change the existing curriculum to an integrated one or develop a new curriculum.
Knowing about the different levels of integration and steps for developing an integrated curriculum can make it easier to integrate an existing curriculum or develop a new one.
课程整合旨在使教学/学习活动具有意义；然而，不同机构和个人对“整合”的理解存在差异。许多医学院校难以改变现有课程或开发新的综合课程，主要是因为缺乏意愿、基础设施和对变革过程的理解。
从经验中得出，这 12 条关于员工发展、建立工作组、根据主题组织教学/学习材料以及开发一些创新的教学/学习和评估策略的建议，是教学机构可以用来将现有课程转变为综合课程或开发新课程的技术。
了解整合的不同层次和开发综合课程的步骤可以使整合现有课程或开发新课程变得更加容易。
