Curriculum Development and Assessment in Medical Education Sultan Qaboos University College of Medicine and Health Sciences April 2009 Professor Nigel Bax Academic Unit of Medical Education School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences University of Sheffield, UK
Questions we need to answer:
What are the features of a medical professional?
Questions we need to answer: What are the features of a medical professional? Are we selecting the right people for admission?
Questions we need to answer: What are the features of a medical professional? Are we selecting the right people for admission? How do students and doctors develop these attributes?
Questions we need to answer: What are the features of a medical professional? Are we selecting the right people for admission? How do students and doctors develop these attributes? How do we know that they have them?
Questions we need to answer: What are the features of a medical professional? Are we selecting the right people for admission? How do students and doctors develop these attributes? How do we know that they have them? Selection – Curriculum – Assessment – Work as a doctor
Aims of the two days To analyse the vision of your new curriculum To discuss how the vision becomes a sustainable reality To consider learning and teaching strategies To understand the principles underpinning assessment To ‘participate’ in an OSCE To engage in blueprinting and standard setting
Curriculum development and implementation Wednesday 22 April – Welcome – Workshop Analysing the vision for the new curriculum – Refreshments – Presentation and discussion Translating the vision into reality – LUNCH – Lecture Curriculum Development and Assessment in Medical Education – Workshop Developing learning and teaching strategies – Feedback and summary of the day
Principles and Practice of Assessment Thursday 23 April – Presentation Overview of assessment – test methods and standard setting – The OSCE Old and new style assessments and an OSCE film – Refreshments – Demonstration and participation An OSCE in action – LUNCH – Workshop Constructing a test and blueprinting – Workshop Standard setting – Concluding comments