The hidden curriculum within medical education has been a topic of recent debate.
Consensus opinion regarding the continued relevance of this term, what constitutes the …

Background: Much of what medical students learn about being a doctor occurs not within the
formal curriculum, but within informal and hidden curricula embedded within the institutional …

Introduction In health professions education, faculty may feel frustrated or challenged by
aspects of their teaching. The concept of a hidden curriculum for students describes the …

Introduction: The hidden curriculum is a set of ethical, moral, and value-based teachings
communicated to doctors-in-training, providing a basis for their future interactions with …

Background The hidden curriculum (HC) refers to unscripted, ad hoc learning that occurs
outside the formal, taught curriculum and can have a powerful influence on the professional …

Objectives The effect of hidden curriculum on student learning has not been sufficiently
recognized in most of the revised curriculums. This study is a qualitative study that measures …

The hidden curriculum is considered to be between the designed and experienced curricula.
One of the challenges that medical educators face is to understand what students learn in …

Purpose: The hidden and informal curricula refer to learning in response to unarticulated
processes and constraints, falling outside the formal medical curriculum. The hidden …

Background Major curriculum reform of undergraduate medical education occurred during
the past decades in the United Kingdom (UK); however, the effects of the hidden curriculum …

Purpose To analyze the plural definitions and applications of the term “hidden curriculum”
within the medical education literature and to propose a conceptual framework for …