The Histology Curriculum

The Curriculum proper Training refers to a context in which we can predict situations the learner will be exposed to and use the training experience he had .Education refers to a process in which we can not predict what situations the learner will be exposed to (Posner ,2004) In the Histology curriculum ,training is introduced through professional and practical skills while education is introduced through ILOs that focus on knowledge ,understanding and intellectual skills. The curriculum purpose can be explained in terms of required results ,goals and objectives ,which are not closely the same( Posner ,2004).The Histology curriculum is lacking a clear definition about societal goal that can define the country social ,political and economic

The cognitive domain is usually defined in terms of knowledge ,comprehension ,application ,synthesis and evaluation (Posner ,2004) .In the histology curriculum ,the cognitive functions are defined in terms of verbs as ;enumerate, state , correlate ,link, and recognize. They allow the students to discuss subjects in a critical manner. The affective domain usually describes five classes of increasing levels of internalization , starting from just listening to an idea (level 1) to responding to an idea ( level 2) , to developing values and commitment to an idea (level 3) to developing values based on idea (level 4)to being characterized by a value (level 5) .Moreover ,the psychomotor domain which refers to what body can do with what mind knows .Bloom's taxonomy is not the only classification of learning objectives ,Gagne categorizes them intellectual ,cognitive ,verbal, motor and attitude functions .Some may think that classification of domains may have bad impact on education . (Posner ,2004).The Histology curriculum was discussing the ILOs in terms of a cognitive domain and did not reach a degree of specification to discuss the affective domain . The affective domain can be supported through task based learning to allow student

One of those is the rationale. This includes the overall role in relevant training, how it was developed, what are the learning methods, the role of the teachers and students in curriculum development .Rationale of a curriculum also includes its suitability to the stage of learning ,linking of the students to the previous and coming stages of education (Posner,2004) .

In the Histology curriculum , the rationale is not well defined, no information supplied about how it was developed and what was the role of teachers and students. However, the link of courses with the next coming stage may be applied through integration with other basic medical sciences or even clinical sciences. The curriculum must have a speciality specific content to be mastered .This comes through knowledge ,skills ,attitudes and expertise .Content should be presented in terms of what the students will know ,describe ,understand ,recognize ,be able to do(Posner,2004).These ILOs are adequately covered in the Histology model but lacking a clear statement of the standard method used to apply it