@article{336266eb62ac4eed85b714d567dd12e1,
title = "Role of a medical student's association in improving the curriculum at a faculty health sciences",
abstract = "The Joyce and Irving Goldman School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev encourages students to take part in the development and evaluation of the teaching experience. These special relations between the school and the students contribute not only to changes in the curriculum but also to increased involvement of faculty and students in the community. This article reviews the special relationship between the Faculty of Health Sciences and its medical students through the Medical Students Association (ASRN). During the last decade, BGU medical students have initiated innovative programmes some of which have recently become integrated into the curriculum. These include: prevention of sexual violence among youth, decreasing white-coat fear in small children ('Teddy Bear hospital' and participation in home-hospice activities. By encouraging students to become equal partners in faculty development and rejecting the traditional paternalistic mode of teacher-student relationships, the faculty has created an improved learning experience, and increased student motivation and levels of communication between the teachers and the future clinicians.",
author = "Asaf Toker and Jacob Urkin and Yuval Bloch",
note = "Funding Information: increae tshnue mr osufbt ndseatenepxdawo nrdkto shTaob1plTe.ds deHayr-o Bspital include pre-high school students in spci{\v Z} ec sectors (religious and Bedouin sectors).This programme has been apved bpyro the Ministry of Education and will receive funds to cover expenses for the current academic yearf rtohJemwe i sh Agency and piavrdontores. Program counsellors are students of the Faculty of Health Sciences who hecao pvlmeetspdce tiarnal,a gitonndatedi40 students hve paraticipted ainthe cour rse.eThe scuoses rwere coordinated by ASRN and members of the Faultcy of Health Sciences, who volunteered their time, were rspensible ofothe r teaching. Owing to the high academic standards of the course, the importance of the subect jmtter aanmodttio iovf nthae student body, participation in this project is now of{\v Z} cially rc-e ognized and accredited by the medical school as an integral part of the electivecu ricurlum. Additional courses are in the process of being similarly accredited. These include workshops training students to tutor children with Dow{\textquoteright}ssn ndy e,rcoreempbalarsdanyl autism. Once again, the main goal of this programme is to encourage medical students to become ivnolevin dcmu-om nity orientated projects.",
year = "2002",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1080/0142159021000063961",
language = "English",
volume = "24",
pages = "634--636",
journal = "Medical Teacher",
issn = "0142-159X",
publisher = "Informa Healthcare",
number = "6",
}
