Contextual Curriculum Planning: Tailoring your curriculum to the local context – An Overview

Abstract

There is increasing realization and demand for health professional education to link curriculum to healthcare needs. Health professional educators have now professional and ethical obligation to meet the above demands and they need to be accountable. Accreditation bodies attach importance and weightage to curricula, that state the process of curriculum development also the educational and evaluation strategies [1]. These bodies look for outcome measurements in the curricula [2].

Keywords

• curriculum
• local context
• mci