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Exploring the Conditions that Will Allow for Change in Traditional Korean Medicine Curricula - Focusing on the Integrated Curriculum -

  • The Journal Of Korean Medical Classics
  • Abbr : JKMC
  • 2020, 33(3), pp.63~89
  • DOI : 10.14369/jkmc.2020.33.3.063
  • Publisher : 대한한의학원전학회
  • Research Area : Medicine and Pharmacy > Korean Medicine
  • Received : July 28, 2020
  • Accepted : August 13, 2020
  • Published : August 25, 2020

Jo, Hak-Jun 1

1세명대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Objectives : To suggest conditions that will allow for change in Traditional Korean Medicine (TKM) curricula through analysis of the failure of widespread acceptance of the integrated curriculum into all Traditional Medicine Colleges. Methods : First, the process of change between TKM education and medical education was compared. Next, the conditions that would stimulate change in TKM curricula were analyzed in three levels: structure, policy, and actor. Results : TKM colleges have not experienced a structural change from the six-year to four-year structure. The accreditation standards of TKM education (KAS2021) should be more supportive instead of forcing change, and the goals should be reset to education improvement instead of meeting the standards of WFME. The deans' leadership and professors' ownership over their subjects need to be modified. A group of professionals that could lead change is required, while other factors such as full-time professorships, clinical practice hours, obligatory teaching hours and overall teaching environment need to be improved. Conclusions : It would be ideal if individual TKM colleges created success models of curricula change-despite the time and effort that is required-that could spread to other colleges. After the new curriculum has been accepted in more that half of the total eleven TKM colleges, an institutional isomorphism can be demanded.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.