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Dr Shock MD PhD
Both the hidden and informal curriculum take place after or next to the theoretical teaching, the formal teaching and has an important part in the shaping of the medical students’ professionalism and professional values. Moreover, these forms of the curriculum have a major impact on the learning potential of med students. Yet little is known about this subject. A lot has been written but only from a theoretical stand point.
The hidden curriculum is the physical and workforce organizational infrastructure in the academic health center that influences the learning
process and the socialization to professional norms and rituals.
The informal curriculum is the student’s immersion in the interpersonal processes in the academic health center, including
interactions between students and their teachers, interactions among the interprofessional participants in medical care processes, and interactions that students experience with patients and their family members.
Recent published research studied the informal and hidden curriculum by using medical students’ critical incident narratives. Medical students were asked during their third year clerkship in internal medicine to report professional critical incidents, events that thought them something about professionalism and professional values or the lack thereof.
reflect on and write about events, either positive …