A Novel Approach for Investigating Curricular Redundancy

Curricular redundancy can be a major problem for medical schools, especially those with a highly integrated curriculum. Although some redundancy is desirable, many forms of redundancy are not. Unfortunately, evaluating curricular redundancy and discerning desirable redundancy from undesirable redundancy can be quite challenging. Further, pinpointing undesirable redundancy and quantifying it so as to produce an estimate of inefficiency is even more difficult. This brief article describes a novel, and promising, student-led strategy for evaluating redundancy in a highly integrated medical school curriculum