Medicine is changing quickly and in the Faculty of Medicine, we’re working to ensure our curriculum is agile and responsive to new developments.
As part of Foundations, curriculum planning and curriculum mapping help us to prepare our students to meet tomorrow’s needs.
Curriculum Planning
Curriculum planning is the process by which we determine the required skills, knowledge and competencies we expect our students possess upon graduation. As part of this initiative, we also outline the activities, assessment models and structures by which we will support our students to achieve those goals. Curriculum planning is also informed by best practices and evidence from medical education research, and clear accreditation and assessment requirements for all graduating medical trainees. Knowledge generated at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education helps ensure our curriculum meets these guidelines.
As part of this new approach to medical education, our Foundations students will also be able to access their own learner chart, which will give them a window into their own progress and allow them to access feedback from their first day in the program.
Curriculum Mapping
The curriculum map that we are creating will allow us to see our students’ trajectory toward fulfilling key and enabling competencies and ultimately, graduation. This electronic platform will allow Faculty to see all of the program’s learning objectives — both from classroom and online experiences — and to pinpoint where students learn new skills and information and how they are progressing in their assessments for various objectives.
These initiatives will bring the rigour of evidence-based learning to medical education and help us provide valuable feedback to students and Faculty while also enabling us to evaluate our program. It also helps us demonstrate the MD Program’s progress toward achieving the requirements of the accreditation process.
