Benchmarking, a new method for developing an educational curriculum for respiratory therapy courses in medical schools

Abstract

Abbas Khosravi, Rita Rezaee, Golnar Sabetian

“Develop a curriculum (DACUM)” describes all the ways in training organization plans and guides teaching. Benchmarking has been employed form 1970s to search for “best practices” in business operations and its application to the process of teaching design, is a new concept. The aim of this study was using DACUM and benchmarking method in order to present useful and unified method for producing the best practice curriculum for educating respiratory therapists in our country.