• Curriculum - three levels
    • Planned curriculum
      • eg. We will run 5 case based interactive tutorials on respiratory medicine
    • Delivered curriculum
      • eg. 4 tutorials happened and one was on cardiorespiratory medicine as the tutor did not understand exactly what he was supposed to do 
    • Experienced curriculum
      • eg. Only half of the students came to one tutorial as there was confusion regarding the timetable. At another tutorial there was limited interaction as the tutor had more of a lecture style 

  • The hidden curriculum
    • what students learn as they experience the gap between what we say and what we actually do.” Jodi Skiles
    • Powerful
    • Transmits values through role modelling
    • Never stated but everyone understands
  • Curriculum four elements
    • Content
    • Teaching and learning strategies
    • Assessment processes
    • Evaluation processes.
  • Curriculum design models

Prescriptive

  • What curriculum designers should do
  • How to create a curriculum

    Objectives based

    • Educational purposes?
    • Educational experiences to reach purposes?
    • Organise educational experiences?
    • Evaluate if purposes being reached?
    • Educational purposes defining these is the most important step
    • BUT objectives especially behavioural objectives can be restrictive
    • Objectives based model fallen from favour

    Outcomes based

    • Starts with the outcomes you want students to obtain 
    • Statement example: students will competently assess and manage patients with asthma”
    • Popular
    • Focuses on what students do (rather than staff)
    • BUT dont be too restrictive/reductionist 

Descriptive

  • What curriculum designers actually do
  • What a curriculum covers


Situational model

  • Situation/context
  • Thoroughly and systematically analyse the situation in which they work for its effect on what they do in the curriculum.”
  • External and internal factors 

Curriculum design curriculum maps

  • Show links between the elements of the curriculum
  • Means of clear display
  • Structure for the organisation of the curriculum
  • Mapped to computer databases

 

  • No gaps
  • No overlapping
  • Holistic approach to care by showing links between different learning outcomes
  • Curriculum design windows on the map
    • The expected learning outcomes
    • Curriculum content or areas of expertise covered
    • Student assessment
    • Learning opportunities
    • Learning location
    • Learning resources
    • Timetable
    • Staff
    • Curriculum management
    • Students

  • Curriculum design cost benefit
    • Curriculum design is expensive
      • Planning
      • Organising
      • Running
      • Assessing
      • Evaluating
    • Good curriculum design has tangible benefits
      • Better reputation for your medical school
      • Better applicants to your medical school
      • Better and happier faculty
      • Better graduate doctors
      • Better and safer healthcare
      • No gaps, no overlaps in educational delivery
      • Everyone knows whats going on 
      • External inspections passed 


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