AAMC GQ 2014 – scale 1 to 5 UFCOM National Office of the Dean for Curriculum: Responsiveness to student problems 4.6 3.9Office of the Dean for Students: Responsiveness to student prob
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Marc Zumberg American Society of Hematology
Course Directors Breakfast
December 2015
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Overview
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Trang 10• Goal: To identify the institution’s strengths, areas for improvement, and strategies to address any concerns
• 5 Areas with 128 accreditation standards
– Institutional Setting
– Educational Program
– Medical Students (services and learning environment)– Faculty
– Educational Resources
• Began March 2013 – Database draft completed Jan.
2014
Trang 11AAMC GQ 2014 – scale 1 to 5 UFCOM National Office of the Dean for Curriculum:
Responsiveness to student problems 4.6 3.9Office of the Dean for Students:
Responsiveness to student problems 4.7 4.0Satisfaction with: Career planning services 4.4 3.7
Faculty mentoring 4.5 4.1
Programs that promote well being, effective
stress management, balanced lifestyle 4.3 3.9 Academic counseling 4.5 3.9
Personal counseling 4.6 4.0
Financial aid services 4.5 4.1
Trang 123. Clerkship Grade Reporting. Final grades within 6 weeks of end of
clerkships.
Action: Currently in compliance continue to monitor closely.
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Guidelines
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Trang 16Standards: example
Trang 17– Medical Education Program Policies and
Procedures:
https://osa.sites.medinfo.ufl.edu/files/2014/10/PoliciesandProceduresHandbook.pdf
Trang 19• Do you have enough administrative/staff support?
Should be yes – if not let us know – from Deans office and sometimes department (this varies)
• What type of work are the staff responsible for?
Deans office staff help scheduling, uploading
course material, formatting exams, exam scoring and analysis ?
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Trang 21University System Instructor Work Load (IWL)– modified with faculty input
Trang 22Standards: example
Trang 23• Give an example of unprofessional student
behavior and what was done to correct it?
1 Student was late and missing from required
assignment – referred to ASC, required to write a reflective paper and assigned a mentor –
depending on the severity and repetitive nature this may documented in the course/clerkship
evaluation and MSPE
2 Arrogance and condescending behavior of student
to others – counseled and referred for
psychological evaluation – mentor and reflective paper – documented in clerkship evaluation
Trang 24• What happens if you have a lecturer who doesn’t
perform well? They are usually counseled by course director for improvement and may be referred to a specific faculty development workshop for
remediation– if poor performance persists the CD has authority to replace the faculty
• Do you have the authority to remove lecturers?
YES
• Do you receive sufficient support for being a course director? YES – FTE from Deans office –
departments get eRVUs for faculty teaching effort
Trang 25University policy – tell student if informed you must report to the University per policy
Trang 26• Is there any central monitoring of student mistreatment?
• What is your policy about sexual harassment?
• How are courses reviewed?
• How often do you get data from student assessments?
Trang 27•What is your schools definition on diversity? “The College is committed to nurturing greater inclusion of African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans as well as the
socioeconomically disadvantaged (rural and urban) as a primary objective for the achievement of excellence through Diversity. The College of Medicine however recognizes that inclusion of other ethnic minorities and groups underrepresented in
medicine is essential to the promotion of excellence in
healthcare and achievement of health equity for residents in the state of Florida.”
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org. recommendations (e.g., IOM), USMLE content outline, CD discussions, AAMC
GQ , performance USMLE, Residency
program director surveys, student surveys, search engine, course debriefings
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Review student performance USMLE exams,
AAMCGQ, Residency Program Director Evaluations, and internal exams including Clinical Skills Exams
•How are lecturers evaluated? Student surveys and
student performance on exam items – when necessary peer evaluation
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Trang 34Standards: example
Trang 353 phase curriculum: ACGME Competency based with ~ 100 Institutional Learning Objectives (developed by faculty)
Phase 1: Foundations of Medical Practice (68 weeks, years 1 and 2), integrates clinical skill development and social and
Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Geriatrics and Rehabilitative Medicine, and Internship 101)
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Trang 38• How do you decide what basic science to keep and what should be removed? Use AAMCGQ data,
AAMC MSOP, IOM and other reports, USMLE Content Outline and discussions among faculty
with recommendations from course and clerkship director committees submitted to CC
• What type and how much communication do you have with the clerkship directors? Occurs through participation of Chairs of course and clerkship
committees on monthly CC and facilitated by the ADME who is on all 3 committees
Trang 39• Who has final approval of course content? Course directors and Faculty – must be aligned with course and curriculum objectives (approved by CC)
• How do you know what students have been taught prior to your course? Discussions among faculty and Course Dirs. & search engine
• How do you use the institutional (schoolwide)
objectives to guide your content? Course objectives are linked to institutional objectives – learning
activities are linked to course objectives and
content is linked to learning activity and course
objectives
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between the institutional objective, course objective, and assessment.
surveys, student performance data,
student/faculty course debriefings,
Evaluation Committee and CC review
Trang 41• Which courses use narrative evaluations? The CLGs provide opportunity for narrative feedback (both oral and written) CLGs are a learning tool that any
course can use for active or engaged learning
activities including clinical skills, ICM for
history/physical diagnosis Clinical Skills Exams – others??
• Do CLG leaders assess students? They provide
formative assessment of professionalism, team skills, clinical skills and narrative feedback on student
performance in these activities – they do not assign grade – the associated course assigns grades
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curriculum? In ICM with physical examination – coordinated with organ systems
• Students noted a dissatisfaction with quality and consistency of the anatomy instruction. What is being done to address their dissatisfaction? This was due to faculty turnover and an unexpected absence of a faculty member for FMLA – faculty has returned and evals. increased
• How do you know whether anatomy is
successfully covered? USMLE Step 1 scores
actually higher, internal exams
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• If you had to come up with strengths and areas of improvements, what
would they be?
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