OBJECTIVE: The objective of this paper is to formulate standards for assessing the Undergraduate Curriculum of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine. METHODOLOGY: A modified version of Stake's Responsive Evaluation Approach was used. Content analysis was done. RESULTS: Fourteen standards emerged from data gathered and were reflective of and responsive to the concerns and issues of the stakeholders. CONCLUSIONS: The standards which were formulated from the study are specific for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine and may therefore be limited in application to the evaluative object. The procedure by which the standards were arrived at, however, can be used by other medical schools for their own curriculum. The procedure is fairly easy to follow and is flexible enough to accommodate reasonable constraints in ones situation and available resources. As such, this approach is highly recommended for use by other schools.

Psychiatry ; Curriculum ; Education ; Behavioral Medicine