Curriculum Building: National Military Hospital, Afghanistan
IGOT’s colleagues in Afghanistan have identified the need for a 2-tiered curriculum, one for orthopaedic surgery residents in training and one for medical students. This curriculum, if adopted, must be approved by multiple ministerial levels including; the Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Higher Education, Ministry of Defense and Afghan National Army. IGOT has feverously been collecting established curriculum outlines from all orthopaedic sub-specialties within UCSF and the current topics included in the USCF medical school curriculum. The objective is to consolidate these outlines into a workable curriculum and build upon the set topics to include a structured lecture series with; a key literature-reading list, hands-on objectives and potential video teaching modules. IGOT hopes to focus on universal fundamental orthopaedic topics initially and then build up to comprehensive sub-specialty topics. In the summer of 2009 IGOT will be building the web-based template for these teaching modules in hopes to complete at least 1-3 modules to start the curriculum. These modules will be presented and discussed with the visiting Afghanistan Professors in the Fall.