The best methods to use in planning a residency curriculum have been a topic of controversy and of great concern in most rehabilitation training programs. A satisfactory physical medicine and rehabilitation curriculum which can train a resident to be a clinician first and a specialist second cannot be improvised. To restructure and revise its curriculum, the Temple University Department of Rehabilitation Medicine spent 2 yr in designing a basic science and clinical medicine syllabus. The Curricculum Committee tackled the following fundamental questions: Who should organize the curriculum? How is the curriculum best derived? How is the curriculum to be implemented? How are efforts and results measured? The methods in which the questions were answered and the solutions felt most appropriate for the Temple residency program are highlighted. A logical and orderly curriculum may be one of the better ways to attract the kind of medical student who will do honor to the specialty of physiatry.
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