فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

INTRODUCTION: Social factors such as culture, race, education, belief, and living and workingenvironment can be part of the causes of diseases or influence the natural history of a disease.MATERIALS AND METHODS: We have adopted the Harden’s ten questions of curriculumdevelopment framework approach to assess the social impact of medical curriculum of Faculty ofMedicine, Gezira University (FMUG), among the Integrated Program of Field Training, Research, andRural Development course. We have assessed the objectives and aims of the course and criticallyanalyzed how these will meet the need for social sciences to be integrated into the curriculum.RESULTS: The recommendations about social and behavioral sciences are well implemented in thecurriculum of FMUG. The curriculum promotes early exposure to the community learning. The tenquestions of Harden for curriculum or course assessment are satisfactorily covered in the IntegratedProgram of Field Training, Research, and Rural Development course at FMUG. In addition, thecourse is also fitting well with criteria suggested recently for increasing competency in social medicinewithin the medical school curriculum. Importantly, the course is part of the social sciences that wellintegrated through the duration of the curriculum.CONCLUSION: The Integrated Program of Field Training, Research, and Rural Development courseat FMUG satisfy most of the competency for social medicine. Therefore, taking all these factorsinto consideration, it is possible to suggest that further research is needed to establish whether themodel of FMUG in social sciences can be exemplary for universities in Africa and the Middle East.