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Aims of Guidelines
(1) To provide a document for rheumatology teachers that outlines the priorities and educational areas that need to be considered when developing an undergraduate rheumatology course.
(2) To suggest minimal standards for an undergraduate programme in rheumatology throughout Europe.
Any teaching programme may be divided into three major components: curriculum, teaching method, and assessment. The starting point, however, in terms of programme design, is the curriculum. This needs to clearly define the skills, attitudes and knowledge (that is, the alteration in behaviour) that the student will acquire by undertaking the programme. Once the curriculum is in place, and is known by both teachers and students, the most efficient teaching methods to accomplish the curriculum can be devised, as can the appropriate methods of assessment. All three basic components should interrelate and be modified in the light of regular audit, and in response to changes in medical knowledge and practice.
The EULAR Standing Committee on Education and Training has proposed the following core curriculum for “rheumatology” for use in medical schools in Europe. The aims of a rheumatology undergraduate curriculum for Europe1 ,2 and for the United Kingdom3have previously been published. Such aims describe the general content and direction of learning, but are too general to give any real guide to the level of competence required by undergraduates. The following curriculum, however, presents a precis of the …