What's the difference between curricula and curriculum?

Curricula


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Curriculum

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The curricula were very well received by the school system, teachers, children, and the community, and have received local, national, and international attention.
  • (2) In a long-term follow-up of a study designed to assess the impact of school-based suicide prevention curricula on high school students, a group of 174 students from two high schools who were exposed to a prevention program were compared with a group of 207 control students from two additional high schools who were not exposed to the curriculum.
  • (3) We have reviewed the curricula used at our four Norwegian medical schools for education in this field.
  • (4) Teaching and training in Geriatric Medicine has also been incorporated in the curricula for medical students, nurses and other allied paramedical professions.
  • (5) In contrast to in-service training, preservice (university-based) programs have been slow in offering relevant skills-based curricula.
  • (6) Teacher-Student Relations emerged as the most important aspect of teacher comportment, followed by knowledge associated with Human Behavior, Substances, User Recognition and Referral, Prevention Curricula, and Legal Issues.
  • (7) The program is recommended for supplementation of school health promotion curricula.
  • (8) Although dental curricula have undergone significant revision during the past three decades, the problem of linking basic science with clinical dentistry often remains an unmet challenge in dental education.
  • (9) Responding to an American Association of Colleges of Nursing's national survey, deans of baccalaureate nursing schools indicated that they are in a process of building curricula and clinical experiences to prepare practitioners who are skilled and confident in the care of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients.
  • (10) These efforts must be geared toward an all-out recruitment effort aimed at teenagers and workers in non-health care fields, a restructuring of the nursing workplace, and a reformulation of nursing curricula.
  • (11) The curricula survey indicated a generally positive attitude towards these nontraditional students.
  • (12) The following four elements of the process are emphasized: the students, the teachers, the characteristics of the seat hospitals and the curricula.
  • (13) But the institutions suffer from curricula being abandoned due to funding cuts, unqualified – but party-loyal – lecturers, and shoddily built institutions.
  • (14) Family medicine has responded to the need for training in geriatrics by creating geriatric fellowships and by including geriatric education in residency and medical school curricula.
  • (15) The educational curricula is basic and points to the essential aim of health preservation putting aside disease treatment as a way to achieve it.
  • (16) In response to this problem, the authors have written curricula containing subject content listings, objectives, and supplied references for 16 off-service rotations.
  • (17) In that way, any changes in school health curricula, as it relates to international health, should be evident.
  • (18) In addition, state and local governments have acted to legally restrict smoking in schools or to require smoking content in curricula.
  • (19) While inservice training has proven beneficial, teacher training research indicates that the more complex the demands on teachers using innovative psychosocially based health education curricula, the greater the necessity for post-inservice follow-up staff development.
  • (20) In a survey conducted by the authors, the goals of medical school curricula regarding the clinical competencies of graduating students were explored.

Curriculum


Definition:

  • (n.) A race course; a place for running.
  • (n.) A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
  • (2) The effect of this curriculum is measured by statistical analysis of resident-generated aesthetic surgery cases in one year following the introduction of this curriculum into the teaching program.
  • (3) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
  • (4) These days, all Russian 15-year-olds study War and Peace as part of their national curriculum.
  • (5) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
  • (6) The further disappearance of laboratory exercises from the curriculum should be halted by efforts to revitalize them.
  • (7) Twenty-six female students in either their first or fourth (i.e, final) semester of the occupational therapy curriculum were assessed with the Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale (ATDP) (Yukor, Block, & Younng, 1966).
  • (8) Measures of effect of the training found the following: a significant increase in knowledge scores, although the trainees came into the program with relatively high scores; a heightened awareness and increased positive attitudes toward aging; high ratings of performance on a functionally oriented comprehensive health assessment; and augmented geriatric curriculum and clinical training in their home PA programs.
  • (9) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
  • (10) Two thirds of the patients had a better curriculum than one would expect from the IQ.
  • (11) One factor contributing to this problem has been the absence of courses on motor vehicle injury from the curriculums of the health professions schools.
  • (12) Clinical education is integrated throughout the curriculum, and a calendar is developed based on the content of the learning experiences rather than the traditional university calendar.
  • (13) The practicum was designed to meet two objectives in the undergraduate curriculum: (1) to give students experience in the care of patients and families in the community by using cancer as a model of a life-threatening disease requiring acute and chronic care, rehabilitation, etc.
  • (14) While progress has occurred in some schools, the teaching of nutrition has not generally been integrated into the curriculum of the medical school.
  • (15) In fact, it is possible that the student with life experience could be considered one of the motivating forces that drives the curriculum revolution toward its eventual victory.
  • (16) Since 1983, social scientists have collaborated with teaching staff at the Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia, to develop an integrated sociocultural curriculum for undergraduate students in community health.
  • (17) The original goals were to increase the number of family physicians, provide them with the basic knowledge and skills to practice, integrate the concepts of family medicine into the total medical school curriculum, and develop the "attitudes and ideals" of the good family physician.
  • (18) The present situation is described, with specific reference to faculty, curriculum, and accreditation issues.
  • (19) Certain recurring curriculum problems have emerged and have been described as "diseases of the curriculum."
  • (20) In a long-term follow-up of a study designed to assess the impact of school-based suicide prevention curricula on high school students, a group of 174 students from two high schools who were exposed to a prevention program were compared with a group of 207 control students from two additional high schools who were not exposed to the curriculum.

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