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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. I’ve written about the hidden and informal curriculum in a previous post. Most of the research to date has been generally focused on the undergraduate and graduate medical curricula in general. This time we’ll talk about the formal, informal, and hidden curricula of a psychiatry clerkship.
During clerkship medical students are confronted the most with the informal and hidden curriculum. In this research the researchers conducted six focus groups , four with medical students during their psychiatry rotation, one with psychiatry residents and one with teaching faculty of the psychiatry department.
After providing several examples of the kinds of …