Designing and implementing a skills program using a clinically integrated, multi-professional approach: Using evaluation to drive curriculum change
Open Access
- 1 December 2009
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Medical Education Online
- Vol. 14 (1)
- https://doi.org/10.3402/meo.v14i.4514
Abstract
The essential procedural skills that newly graduated doctors require are rarely defined, do not take into account pre-vocational employer expectations, and differ between Universities. This paper describes how one Faculty used local evaluation data to drive curriculum change and implement a clinically integrated, multi-professional skills program. A curriculum restructure included a review of all undergraduate procedural skills training by academic staff and clinical departments, resulting in a curriculum skills map. Undergraduate training was then linked with postgraduate expectations using the Delphi process to identify the skills requiring structured standardised training. The skills program was designed and implemented without a dedicated simulation center. This paper shows the benefits of an alternate model in which clinical integration of training and multi-professional collaboration encouraged broad ownership of a program and, in turn, impacted the clinical experience obtained. Keywords: multi-professional, skills training, undergraduate medicineKeywords
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