1. Opportunities to use the Curriculum Inventory for Research and Scholarship
Terri Cameron, MA Director of Curriculum Programs, AAMC
Jorie Colbert-Getz, PhD, MS University of Utah School of Medicine
Arianne Teherani, PhD University of California – San Francisco

2. Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
Review Curriculum Inventory Data
Discuss medical education research projects the CI can / cannot support
Develop medical education research ideas
Collaborate with potential partners on medical education research projects

3. Discussion Questions:
What types of research projects do schools need to support their curriculum efforts?
What types of research projects can the CI support?
Is there additional data that the CI should collect?

4. Curriculum Inventory and Educational Research
Research related to curriculum content, pedagogy, structure, and competencies has been conducted via surveys, literature reviews, and small studies at selected schools.
Large scale research has been difficult due to survey return rates, limited literature, and the logistics for multi-institutional projects.
 The AAMC Curriculum Inventory is a new resource:
Three years of data
Uploaded between August 1 and September 30 each year
Current participation rate for US schools is 92 percent
New opportunity for large-scale projects

5. Curriculum Inventory Terminology
Previous Academic Year
Academic Level
Sequence Block (Courses or Clerkships)
Nested Sequence Block
Event
Pedagogy
Integration Block
Track
LCME Definition

6. Research Project Process
To determine what climate change and health topics, if any, were covered at US medical schools
MeSH terms through the CI to generate:
percent of schools
the median/max number of courses or classes
the academic level
the instructional method/resource/assessment method/physician competencies associated with each tier
list of participating schools and which tiers their curriculum contained.
Few schools cover content. Integration segues identified.

7. Discussion Questions:
What types of research projects do schools need to support their curriculum efforts?
What types of research projects can the CI support?
Is there additional data that the CI should collect?

8. REPORT OUT

9. Resources for Conducting Medical Education Research
Funding
GEA Regional Mini-Grants Award
GEA National Grant Award
Local Grants
Skills
MESRE conference workshops
Medical Education Scholarship Research and Evaluation (MESRE) Section
MERC Program
Medical Education Research Certificate
Local SDRME rep
Society of Director of Research in Medical Education
USC: Cha-Chi Fung, PhD
UCSF: Pat O’Sullivan, EdD
UNM: Summers Kalishman, PhD
Utah: Jorie Colbert-Getz, PhD
Washington: Lynne Robins, PhD

10. Wrap Up/Questions: