A common educational assumption is that coherence is a pre-requisite for a "good" curriculum. Indeed, in mathematics education this perspective has persisted both nationally and internationally as a foundational principle for curriculum design, reform, and evaluation. While curricular coherence is often unquestioningly accepted as…

The extent to which second year medical students increased their positivity to psychiatry and changed their orientation toward the patient as a person, following a Behavioral Science course, was measured in two successive years. Mastery of the cognitive aspects of the course was also assessed. While performance significantly improved on the…