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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 41, 1227-1233, Copyright © 1994 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

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The experiential curriculum: an alternate model for anaesthesia education

WA Tweed and N Donen
Department of Anaesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

The shift to direct entry into residency training from medical school for all graduates will offer new challenges for anaesthesia training programmes. In this paper we argue that it also offers us an opportunity to re-evaluate our current approach to anaesthesia education. Emphasis in the residency programmes should be to provide trainees with clinical experiences and stimulation that will develop the required traditional competencies. It should also cultivate competency in clinical decision-making, intuition and judgement. Our purpose is to generate discussion by proposing an alternate curriculum model, the experiential curriculum. The basic premise is that learning is a process and outcome is to a large extent related to what the learner does. The process begins with an experience that provides for observation and reflection. Integration of the thoughts provides the basis for executing either existing or new actions. In the experiential curriculum residency training and learning are enhanced by documenting and critically evaluating the experiences to which the resident is exposed. Included within such a structured programme are the methodologies of problem-based and evidence-based learning. Faculty development will be required to help the resident pursue these skills of self-evaluation and efficient learning. We believe that incorporation of an experiential curriculum into the residency training programme will achieve the goals listed above and allow maturation of the process of lifelong learning. It will also allow greater achievement of the application of new information to one's practice.


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