VP collection may convey a hidden curriculum through unrepresentative demographics¶

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Evidence · 1 study · design r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q1 i? Unrepresentative VP collections may convey unintended messages to learners, analogous to how case demographics contradicted a formal multicultural curriculum in prior work. → Urresti-Gundlach M. 2017

Evidence¶

Urresti-Gundlach M. 2017¶

Urresti-Gundlach M., Tolks D., Kiessling C., Wagner-Menghin M., Härtl A., Hege I. (2017). Do virtual patients prepare medical students for the real world? Development and application of a framework to compare a virtual patient collection with population data. BMC Medical Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-017-1013-1

q1 · i? · design · r2

Author interpretation drawing on Turbes et al.'s finding that case example demographics can contradict a formal curriculum. The article states that "authors and curriculum managers should be aware of the “hidden curriculum"" in unrepresentative VP collections.

"Additionally, authors and curriculum managers should be aware of the “hidden curriculum” and the possibility of conveying unintended messages by creating unrepresentative VP collections as described by Turbes et al. [16]."

Discussion¶

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