Making fair, fairer - Implementing the FAIR-ER principles of education in an integrated curriculum

ABSTRACT

When an integrated organ system based curriculum was adopted by the University for its Medical School, curricular changes had to be implemented in the Clinical Clerkship phase called Phase 3. To design an effective educational strategy using certain principles of education such as Feedback, Active learning, Individual learning and Relevance [FAIR] together with Evaluation and Reflection. [FAIRER] The first batch of the Integrated Curriculum students of the MBBS program formed the study population. Certain principles of education such as Feedback, Active learning, Individualisation of learning and relevance that have been advocated for use to enhance learning, together with continuous evaluation and Reflection were applied in educational strategies for the implementation of the Integrated Curriculum Implementing the Integrated Curriculum for the Clinical phase of the MBBS program offered a tremendous opportunity to apply the F-A-I-R principles of education together with E-R that is Evaluation and Reflection. The scores obtained during the summative assessment and the positive student response validated the enhancement of learning objectively and subjectively