Step 1 Problem Identification and General Needs Assessment
The first stage in Kern’s six-step model is problem identification and a general needs assessment. The essential aim of a curriculum in medical education is to prepare learners to address a problem that affects the health of a specific population. To accurately identify the problem, one should consider two guiding questions: whom does the problem affect? And what does the problem affect? To answer the first question, one should examine a variety of
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