Curriculum Updates
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New Curriculum Structure
The new curriculum at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai provides multiple opportunities for extensive and integrated training in the foundational sciences and clinical disciplines of medicine. There are three distinct phases: Phase 1 This phase is 18 months...
First Annual LEAD Conference
The first annual Office of Curricular Affairs curricular leadership conference where faculty and staff engage in our community of practice, share ideas, learn one another and hear from experts in the field was held on September 30, 2022. The LEAD...
Learner Assessment Committee Callout
We are starting up our Learner Assessment Committee. This committee will be responsible for developing learner assessments for the new curriculum as well as deciding the frequency of assessment methodologies. Want to be involved? If you are a faculty member, staff...
Student Q&A Sessions
We are excited to update provide student sessions on the progress of the MD program curriculum redesign that has been underway for the past several months. Thank you to all the students who have contributed to the redesign process so far! The new curriculum will...
Welcome to Nicola Feldman, Academic Fellow
The Department of Medical Education is excited to announce the first recipient of the Office of Curricular Affairs Academic Fellowship, Nicola “Nikki” Feldman. During her time here at Sinai, Nikki has served in multiple teaching roles such as a teaching assistant...
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...
Call out for new Scholarly Year Opportunity, Academic Fellow
The MD Program of the Icahn School of Medicine is seeking an Academic Fellow for the Office of Curricular Affairs. Designed to stimulate or sustain interest in medical education especially in curriculum design, development, implementation and assessment, this unique...
Content Committee – The Work Begins
After a call out to the Sinai community and over 150 faculty, staff and students applied to work on one of three working groups focused on the three phases of the new curriculum as determined by the Framework Committee: Pre-Clerkship Clerkship Post-Clerkship The...
The Four Outcomes of the Framework Committee
The Curriculum Redesign Initiative is moving forward into the next phase of work. In recent months the Framework Committee has been working hard to come up with the overall structure of the new curriculum, specifically creating the structural framework, determining...
Interested in Curriculum Re-Envisioning?
We are well underway into the second stage of our committee development. We are recruiting for the Content Committee which will be comprised of three working groups: Pre-Clerkship Working Group Clerkship Working Group Post-Clerkship Working Group The charge for each...
