January to September 2020

Throughout 2020, the advisory task force attended educational sessions and gave recommendations on how to improve the curriculum.

This included:

  • educating for societal needs: bringing new topics into the curriculum
  • learning about and implementing new instructional formats

Details Matter

During 2020, workshops were held with the Curriculum Advisory Task Force (CATF), comprised of basic science and clinical faculty, other educators, administrators and students, to expand knowledge in:

  • best methods of instruction
  • the science of learning
  • content in humanities
  • scientific literacy
  • health systems science and competency-based medical education

This group of 50 was divided into two groups: Educating for Societal Needs, which focused on curriculum content, and Educational Paradigms, which discussed instructional methods.

At the end of the year of workshops and discussion, the two task forces presented recommendations for the new curriculum to help guide the work of the Core Curriculum Design Team (CCDT).

The CCDT, which was a 25-member subset of the CATF, was then divided into nine working groups, each contributing to these components of the overall curriculum:

  • Phase 1
  • Phase 2
  • Phase 3
  • Learning Communities
  • pillars (humanities/humanism, health systems science, scientific literacy and inquiry, competency based education/assessments/portfolios, and patient-centered care)

Faculty and administrators with expertise in particular areas, as well as students who applied to participate, added diversity of thought.