The Hidden Curriculum

The Intended versus Hidden Curriculum

Below are four articles on the concept of the hidden curriculum in teaching professionalism. These include a systematic review of current literature on teaching professionalism as part of medical education provides an overview of the field, a study of a professionalism curriculum, and a multilevel institutional approach to teaching and modeling professionalism in a medical school.

  • Brainerd AH & HC Brislen.  Learning Professionalism: A View from the Trenches. Acad Med 82:1010-1014, 2007.

  • Hultman CS, Halvorson EG,  Kaye D, Helgans R, Meyers MO, Rowland PA & Meyer AA. Sometimes you can't make it on your own: the impact of a professionalism curriculum on the attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors of an academic plastic surgery practice. J Surg Res, 180:8-14, 2013.

  • Goldstein EA, et al., Professionalism in Medical Education: An Institutional challenge. Acad Med, 81:871-876, 2006. [Select Ovid SP/Athens]

  • Passi V, M Doug, Peile E, Thistlethwaite J, & Johnson N. Developing medical professionalism in future doctors: a systematic review. Int J Med Ed, 1:19-29, 2010