An input should include objectives and objec-tified contents. By prop-er implementation of the system approach the educational managers can be able to raise the standard of education and assure the quality and excellence in performance. This paper briefly emphasizes on the needs of alignment of key elements of a curriculum and fit these as input, process and output to meet up the system approach in education. 1,2,3 The input, process and output must be relevant and there must have the right mix of curricular objectives, contents, methods and assessment aimed to produce competent and confident medical practitioners. Though medical education is in the process of changing, there are big prob-lem in undergraduate medical education due to lack of objectivity, overloaded content, improper methods of content delivery and inappropriate ways of assessment of out-put. Objectives, contents, methods and assessment are the key elements of a curriculum. Curriculum is the result of piec-ing together of a number of information including vision and mission statements of educational institutions.
Probably the most difficult struggle facing the educational industry is about how the curriculum to be customized. Outputs are the end-product of edu-cational inputs and process those must be assessed based on objectives. The inputs are basically the objectives and objectified contents that teachers put in while the processess are the methods of delivery of contents. In educational industry, to teach systematically teachers must consider input, process and output and decide objectives, contents, methods and assessment. System approach is a term that means to do something systematically.
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