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If Gharib Hall Could Talk, Maryam Alizadeh, Dean Parmelee, Saeedreza Mehrpour

Medical Education Faculty Publications

Not only did we have to convince faculty and students that "active and engaged" learning would make for better education-a major "culture" transition-we had to create the learning spaces that would support these changes. Hafferty, in confronting hidden curriculum, has suggested that medical school is a "learning space", which sends messages to students and teachers (1). In sum, we defined the "problem" as an "opportunity" to engage students, faculty, and leadership in a process to transform the learning culture to learner-centered and this included creating a teaching-learning space to fit.