Content Committee – Working Group Progress
Members of the three Content Committee Working groups began meeting this month. Once charged by Dr. Soriano, the first few minutes focused on acclimating faculty to the curricula at other medical schools and reviewing journals on current trends and issues within medical education. Moving forward, each working group will meet twice a month and will work on a set of decisions that need to be made by August 2022.
Phase 1:
- Determine order of blocks
- How to integrate threads
- Decide what goes in the foundational block and transitional block and how they should be structured (hours per week, pedagogy %, arrangement of day, should there be built in time for meetings w advisors, SA, research, feedback? Consider faculty development as built-in, what about flexibility – does less lecture means more mandatory sessions, etc.)
- Determine locations for all the topics that don’t have a full block
- Determine how best to teach skills such as communication, physical exam, procedures, advocacy, etc.
- Identify how best to build specific and individual formative feedback to students
Phase 2:
- Define phase 2 objectives
- Determine phase 2 block schedule/framework
- Identify assessment blocks
- Identify how best to build specific and individual formative feedback to students
Phase 3:
- Determine Phase 3 blocks: Scholarship/Exploration (1st part) and Career Planning/Differentiation (2nd longer part) – goals
- Identify Scholarship block – development and completion of scholarly project requirement including timing of dissemination
- Identify Exploration block – electives and Advance Clinical Experiences (ACE)
- Identify Career planning block including Step prep
- Determine Differentiation block including Areas of Concentration (AOC) including AIs
- Determine Phase 3 capstone