FIMA Year Book 2009 - Federation of Islamic Medical Associations

Inculcating Islamic Inputare closely observed from the verybeginning under the mentorshipprogram to ensure supervised trainingand assessment of their attitude andbehavior. Weekly reflection sessionsof small groups of students with theirmentors facilitate the development ofrelationship among students and theirteachers. These sessions also help inidentifying the right attitudes expectedand monitoring of progress in achievingaffective domain outcomes. Reflectionon academic and non-academic issuesprovides a holistic perspective to theAffective domain. In addition, studentsare continuously exposed to variousIslamic concepts and behaviors throughtalks, lectures, community activities andsharing of experiences.For the Knowledge domain, students areprovided access to information throughthe availability of online resources,library and web portals. Small groupteaching is the main teaching methodwhich provides close monitoring ofstudents and identification of weakstudents to provide remedial measures.Student Centered Team-based Learning(SCTL) method engages studentsthrough various activities like drawingsand work books completion to enhancetheir memory and retention. ProblemBased Learning (PBL), Clinical SkillsTraining (CST) and Clinical Correlation(CC) courses provide thinking andproblem solving exercises under thesupervision of facilitators. Large classsessions provide a portal to conveyimportant topics to the whole class atonce to give them better understandingand planning of upcoming small groupsessions.Skills’ training is also conducted as aseparate course and explanation anddemonstration by experts is the mainstrategy adapted before allowing themto practice individually.Community and Health ExposureTraining (CHET) course, Personaland Professional Development (PPD)course, Military medicine, Disasterand Relief Medicine (DRM), electivesfor both non-medical and medicalsubjects and voluntary work underYoung Mercy all contribute towards aholistic approach to the patient and thecommunity.Traditional and ComplimentaryMedicine (TCM) is another importantcourse to integrate Islamic and otheralternative treatment methods intomodern medicine.Introduction to research topics andencouragement to conduct researchduring electives is also in accordancewith the Islamic philosophy.Criterion based continuous formativeand summative assessment is helpfulin creating a collaborative learningenvironment instead of competitiveenvironment.This bird’s eye view analysis of CUCMScurriculum clearly indicates thedirection of education towards Islamicphilosophy of medicine which is inaccordance with the Philosophy ofCUCMS as well.There is still a need to introduce fewFIMA YearBook 200940