The document discusses the hidden curriculum in education. It defines the hidden curriculum as the unwritten rules and socialization processes that are unconsciously taught. It occurs everywhere in the education system and is taught by all staff through their words and behaviors. The document provides factors that contribute to the hidden curriculum, how to recognize it, how to avoid it, and how it could be taught using a SOLVED strategy.

1. Hidden
Curriculum
Where is
the
Hidden
Curriculu
m?

2. Hidden Curriculum
• Many education units adopt curriculum
innovations; some success others fail,

3. Hidden curriculum
Objectives
• Defining what is Hidden
Curriculum.
• Defining Contributing factors.
• Defining where It is conducted.
• Defining who conducts it.
• How to recognize Hidden
Curriculum.
• How to teach it.

4. Defining Hidden Curriculum
1. The set of influences that
function at the level of
organizational structure and
culture including , for example,
implicit rules to survive the
institution such as customs,
rituals, and taken for granted
aspects.
2. A term used to describe the
unwritten rules and expectations
of behavior that we all seem to
know, but were never taught
• It is the SOCIALIZATION PROCESS.

5. Defining Contributing factors
(External).

6. Defining Contributing factors.(Internal)

7. Where the Hidden Curriculum does
occurs?

8. Who offers the Hidden Curriculum?

9. How to recognize Hidden Curriculum?

10. How to recognize Hidden Curriculum?
Positive Influences or Messages Negative Influences or Messages
• Expressing satisfaction with patient
encounters.
• Professional and friendly interaction
with staff including clerical workers.
• Integration of your practice and
home life, including work-life balance
and effective time management,
• Showing enthusiasm about your
teaching assignments.
• Role modeling the “big picture” of
medicine.
• Demonstrating quality.
• Appreciate that there may be more
than one right answer (medicine is
complex).
• Complaints about workload, the cost
of malpractice, number of patients.
• Disparaging remarks about health
team members, other learners or
residents.
• Failing to take time for family or self.
• Ignoring patient concerns.
• Skipping rotation evaluations.
• Over or under-glorifying board
examinations in-training.
• Being rude to patients or talking
negatively about patients.

11. How to avoid Hidden Curriculum?
1. Being older and more mature.
2. Having had a previous career or life project.
3. Being a woman.
4. Having nonmedical commitments.
5. Having strong patient-centered modeling.
6. Having a family medicine, primary care, or
generalist orientation.

12. Hidden Curriculum

13. Hidden Curriculum

14. How to teach Hidden Curriculum?

15. Hidden Curriculum
• Many education units adopt curriculum
innovations; some success others fail,

16. Hidden Curriculum

17. Hidden Curriculum
• Hidden Curriculum: is A term used to describe
the unwritten rules and expectations of
behavior that we all seem to know, but were
never taught.
• It is influences by multiple external and
internal contributing factors.
• It is taught anywhere across the healthcare
system.

18. Hidden Curriculum
• It is taught by all healthcare staff
independently.
• It can be recognized by simple words and/or
body language.
• It can be avoided with certain factors.
• It could be teached by SOLVED strategy.