Evaluation of anatomical study in Siriraj medical students after changes in medical curriculum.

ABSTRACT

After the medical curriculum of the Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, was changed, the premedical period was reduced from two years to one year. Academic credit was also decreased from 73 to 50 credits. Basic knowledge in Biology of medical students who studied under the new curriculum was less than the students who studied the old one. Evaluation of the Students’ Anatomical knowledge revealed that there was no significant difference among three groups of medical students. This indicated that the reduction of curriculum did not effect academic performance of medical students.