The Annals, as many of you will already have noted, looked different in the first quarter of the year. Starting with the July 2001 issue, the Annals will introduce a new format of articles to reflect its changed outlook. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on...

Health science curricula have been undergoing changes worldwide and the medical and dental faculties at the National University of Singapore have also just reorganised their curricula to make them relevant to current and the future practice of medicine and dentistry. Traditional curricula tend to have too much time devoted...

Since the pioneering adoption of problem-based learning (PBL) by McMaster University in medical education more than three decades ago, increasingly more medical schools around the globe have been undergoing curriculum restructuring by incorporating some forms of PBL philosophy into their new curriculum. Some schools have believed and trusted in...

Assessment of clinical competence has always received considerable attention in medical education. Teachers and students frequently challenge the value of assessment and are always looking for alternative methods of assessment. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on “Download PDF” on top to view the full article.

Many medical schools worldwide have made the shift toward problem-based learning (PBL) medical education. Some of them employ these new techniques in only part of their teaching, and usually in the pre-clinical phases, to make basic sciences easier and more attractive. This article is available only as a PDF. Please...