The 2009 Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians (SFFP) report, sponsored by HHMI and the AAMC, recommends competency-based approaches for the preparation of undergraduates who will become medical students, and medical students who will become physicians.  At the undergraduate level, the challenge is to develop strategies to implement the recommendations.  The National Experiment in Undergraduate Science Education (NEXUS) is a multi-year institutional collaboration to develop shared strategies toward implementation and assessment of competency-based science curricula.  Objectives are to consider and enact the recommendations for undergraduate premedical education set forth in the SFFP report; to develop tools to evaluate competencies across undergraduate science curriculum; and to contribute information to broader conversation about impact of the SFFP recommendations.  Project teams are developing competency-based curricular modules and working together to coordinate pilot experiments.

NEXUS: Developing competency-based undergraduate science curricula

244th National Meeting (2012)

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