Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning

Curriculum Design for Medicine and the Health Sciences

College of Medicine

Overview

Curriculum Design for Medicine and the Health Sciences combines face-to-face group workshops and independent work to help faculty foster understanding of curriculum development as it applies to their professional practice. Enrolled faculty will have opportunities to design, and, wherever possible, implement curricula, while participating in interactive sessions on the design, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based teaching in the health sciences. 

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Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

  • Develop a teaching philosophy and evaluate personal teaching skills.
  • Provide peers and learners with clear, effective, and constructive feedback while attending to learners needs.
  • Apply basic curricular design principles and research-based best practices of clinical teaching and learning to an individually designed curriculum.
  • Critically evaluate instructional models and assessments 
  • Incorporate technology into planned active learning experiences.
  • Garner Stakeholder support to launch curriculum products and perform programmatic assessment for continuous curricular improvement. 

Participation Requirements

Participants must attend the 4 of the 5 face-to-face sessions and graduation, complete pre-modules and complete assignments outside the face-to-face sessions, and complete final project in order to advance toward participant outcomes. In advance of the first face-to-face session, participants must complete a Learners’ Needs Assessment; which will subsequently inform differentiated approaches to engaging faculty in educational activities throughout the program.  Participants will complete a curriculum outline based on backward design principles with peer feedback and present their curriculum project to their peers.
 

Verification

The final teaching endorsement application will require you to upload a completion of criteria document/certificate obtained from the Educator Development program.

Program Elements

Required Hours: Six 3-hour face to face sessions for a total of 18 hours in face to face sessions, and 2 hours of pre-work for each session and 2 hours of individual and small group activities.

Timeline: 6 months. Runs yearly from January to June. Application required. Applications released in September.

TITLEDELIVERY METHODHOURSDESCRIPTION
In-person sessions

 

In-person 
  • In-person sessions provide opportunities to practice many of the elements of curriculum design including: developing learning objectives, assessment, developing teaching materials, educational technology, and curricular leadership.
Pre-modules
Online 
  • Pre-modules are available before each face to face session including eLearning, articles, videos, and podcasts.
Curriculum Project
In-person 
  • Completion of a curriculum project in the student’s area of choice through the workshops with feedback from mentors, facilitators and peers.
  • Required project presentation and submission at the end of the course.

 

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Learn more about Endorsement requirements and offerings.

Apply for Endorsement

Complete your required documentation.