A Systematic Study of the Philosophical-Social Foundations of the Electronic Curriculum in the Context of Medical Education

Introduction: Solid foundations are essential to successfully implementing a curriculum, and e-curriculums are no exception. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the socio-philosophical foundations of e-curriculums in medical education. Method: The present study was a systematic review. The scope...

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Main Authors: saeid sharifi rahnemo, Azadeh Mozayani Monfared, Masoomeh seidi, Seyyed Mohammad Masoumi, majid sharifi rahnemo
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Published: Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences 2025-02-01
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description Introduction: Solid foundations are essential to successfully implementing a curriculum, and e-curriculums are no exception. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the socio-philosophical foundations of e-curriculums in medical education. Method: The present study was a systematic review. The scope of the research included studies from 2014 to 2024. A systematic search was conducted in electronic databases to identify studies, and internal data search engines such as Normags, Magiran, Civica, foreign IJET, Google Scholar, Eric, Scopus, Science Direct, and 28 related studies were analyzed. Descriptive, interpretive, theoretical, and practical validity were used to control the quality of the extracted codes. Finally, the data were analyzed using content analysis. Results: The findings showed that 81 open philosophical social epistemological concepts supporting the electronic curriculum were used, which can be divided into six epistemological bases of realism, existentialism, relativism, relationalism, ontology, and pragmatism based on the type of epistemological perspective. Finally, based on the selective coding process, the counted concepts were classified into three main categories: positivism, interpretive and interpretive, and critical and emancipatory. Conclusion: In the process of education from the modernist to postmodernist era, the positivist approach has always been needed as a helper to the critical epistemological perspective and cannot be definitively ignored. Therefore, it is suggested that the medical curriculum planners use the characteristics of these elements along with the deprecating approach to design an electronic curriculum.Keywords: Ethical challenges, advanced technologies, medical education
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spelling doaj-art-29b0d50112a040a9b09d2ac7a54107df2025-08-20T02:15:50ZfasShahid Sadoughi University of Medical SciencesJournal of Medical Education and Development2251-70652251-82662025-02-0119410011018A Systematic Study of the Philosophical-Social Foundations of the Electronic Curriculum in the Context of Medical Educationsaeid sharifi rahnemo0Azadeh Mozayani Monfared1Masoomeh seidi2Seyyed Mohammad Masoumi3majid sharifi rahnemo4 Assistant Professor, Educational Development Center (EDC), Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran Assistant Professor, Heart Department, Faculty of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran Assistant Professor, Educational Development Center (EDC), Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran PhD Student of curriculum studies, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran Introduction: Solid foundations are essential to successfully implementing a curriculum, and e-curriculums are no exception. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the socio-philosophical foundations of e-curriculums in medical education. Method: The present study was a systematic review. The scope of the research included studies from 2014 to 2024. A systematic search was conducted in electronic databases to identify studies, and internal data search engines such as Normags, Magiran, Civica, foreign IJET, Google Scholar, Eric, Scopus, Science Direct, and 28 related studies were analyzed. Descriptive, interpretive, theoretical, and practical validity were used to control the quality of the extracted codes. Finally, the data were analyzed using content analysis. Results: The findings showed that 81 open philosophical social epistemological concepts supporting the electronic curriculum were used, which can be divided into six epistemological bases of realism, existentialism, relativism, relationalism, ontology, and pragmatism based on the type of epistemological perspective. Finally, based on the selective coding process, the counted concepts were classified into three main categories: positivism, interpretive and interpretive, and critical and emancipatory. Conclusion: In the process of education from the modernist to postmodernist era, the positivist approach has always been needed as a helper to the critical epistemological perspective and cannot be definitively ignored. Therefore, it is suggested that the medical curriculum planners use the characteristics of these elements along with the deprecating approach to design an electronic curriculum.Keywords: Ethical challenges, advanced technologies, medical educationhttp://jmed.ssu.ac.ir/article-1-1541-en.pdfphilosophical foundationssocial foundationselectronic curriculummedical education
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A Systematic Study of the Philosophical-Social Foundations of the Electronic Curriculum in the Context of Medical Education
Journal of Medical Education and Development
philosophical foundations
social foundations
electronic curriculum
medical education
title A Systematic Study of the Philosophical-Social Foundations of the Electronic Curriculum in the Context of Medical Education
title_full A Systematic Study of the Philosophical-Social Foundations of the Electronic Curriculum in the Context of Medical Education
title_fullStr A Systematic Study of the Philosophical-Social Foundations of the Electronic Curriculum in the Context of Medical Education
title_full_unstemmed A Systematic Study of the Philosophical-Social Foundations of the Electronic Curriculum in the Context of Medical Education
title_short A Systematic Study of the Philosophical-Social Foundations of the Electronic Curriculum in the Context of Medical Education
title_sort systematic study of the philosophical social foundations of the electronic curriculum in the context of medical education
topic philosophical foundations
social foundations
electronic curriculum
medical education
url http://jmed.ssu.ac.ir/article-1-1541-en.pdf
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