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UPDATE: Undergraduate Program Curriculum Renewal January 2010
The motivation for renewal of the MD program came from two areas. During our process of developing a strategic plan, we identified curriculum renewal as the first objective. We have also undergone accreditation recently, and although we were successful in achieving full accreditation, we identified areas for improvement in our undergraduate curriculum. Dean Rourke struck MELT (the Medical Education Leadership Team) to facilitate the renewal process toward a 2012 implementation date.
As an initial step, and to provide direction and best practices information, a review of the literature was completed in the three areas of governance and design, pedagogy, and student assessment. As well, a Needs Assessment assisted with identifying the needs of all stakeholders, and identifying gaps and redundancies in our current curriculum.
MELT has been, and will be, working with a number of ad hoc working groups to:
- Map the MCC objectives and CanMEDS/ Family Practice Principles with 4 Phases to inform the changes of revised UGME curriculum;
- Map national objectives from other groups (e.g. palliative care, geriatrics, family medicine);
- Develop basic skeleton cases which will support MCC and other learning objectives and CanMEDS/ Family Medicine competencies;
- Develop the design cases (based on the skeleton cases) that would be representative of the different phases of the curriculum (i.e. healthy patient/ person with a primary prevention focus; disruption of health with reversible illness and opportunity for disease prevention; and chronic disease management, with acute and chronic aspects of managing the chronic disease); and
- Review of mapping by the faculty who are responsible for delivering the clerkship, basic sciences, and community health and humanities programs, with the integration of these objectives into the curriculum based on the present objectives (including the clinical skills objectives) and the 4 Phases, as well as identification of redundancies and possible gaps.
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