Educational Program and Curriculum Goals and Objectives (Exhibit 2)
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Goal: Provide a program that defines a core curriculum designed to provide the foundations of medical science and practice and prepares students for any residency of their choosing.
Principle 2: The educational program and evaluations are competency based.
Goal: Develop a competency based curriculum and evaluation system
Objectives:
- Develop comprehensive list of competencies
- Develop course learning objectives based on competency categories
- Ensure that the student evaluation process assesses student progress towards attainment of these competencies
- Implement recommendations of the evaluation subcommittee of the curriculum committee
- Develop an evaluation scheme that will specifically address the performance of our graduates during their residencies.
Principle 3: A conceptual framework for defining knowledge promotes learning and effective utilization of that knowledge and serves as a basis for curriculum integration.
Goal: Core material will be taught in the context of clinical relevance.
Objectives:
- Determine the degree to which pre-clinical material is taught in the context of clinical utility.
- Provide clinical support in the development of basic science course objectives.
- Develop clinically relevant basic science questions to be integrated with the performance-based evaluations in the Harrell Center. These questions are asked at computer interstations after a standardized patient encounter.
- Continue to develop the integrated course, "Essentials of Patient Care," in the first two years of medical school with the ongoing goal of teaching the pre-clinical curriculum in the context of total professional development. The curriculum of this course will be coordinated with the learning of basic science concepts and emphasize human relationship building, communication, and ethical and professional behavior.
Principle 4: The ability to learn independently is essential for the physician to provide quality health care and promotes the development of life long learning habits.
Goal: Develop structure and learning methodologies that foster independent learning.
Objectives:
- Adopt a structure in the first two years that allows no more than _ day of contact hours for basic science courses
- Assure that scheduled faculty contact with students during the pre-clinical years does not exceed 25 hours per week.
- Develop independent study modalities such as computer assisted learning modules.
Principle 5: Incorporation of the characteristics of outstanding physicians in the educational program is essential for complete professional development of students.
Goal: Develop curriculum and programs to encourage the highest standards of professionalism
Objectives:
- Develop a faculty statement of exemplary professionalism
- Derive a list of professionalism competencies from the above statement
- Develop a curriculum addressing professionalism competencies
Principle 6: Effective health care delivery requires the consideration of family and community context.
Goal: Develop learning experiences to focus on the family and community context
Objectives:
- Provide an emphasis on the health needs of our community and society in general; this should take place early in the medical school and persist throughout the clinical years.
- Provide support for the Interdisciplinary Family Health course and other community-based programs.
- Maintain required clerkship in Family Medicine.
- Provide students with knowledge about community resources that complement the role of the physician in caring for patients.
Principle 7: Appropriate faculty and appropriate clinical settings are essential for students acquiring the mastery of competencies.
Goal: Utilize diverse clinical settings and utilize our best teaching faculty in those settings.
Objectives:
- Maintain appropriate balance of ambulatory versus inpatient training.
- Expand the use of the Jacksonville campus.
- Improve access to general pediatric clinical settings.
- Expand clinical facilities that offer opportunities to gain experiences in a multitude of health care settings, care for a wide spectrum of patient problems, and participate with other members of the health care team.
- Empower the Office of Generalist Education and Community programs to develop community clinical educational opportunities.
- Continue to work closely with the North Florida AHEC to enhance student exposure to the practice of medicine in rural settings.
- Have faculty serve as facilitators of learning, as well as sources of information, in order that students will learn to retrieve information, critically evaluate the literature, solve problems, apply the scientific method, and make appropriate clinical decisions.
Principle 8: Informatics is essential for effective acquisition and utilization of information by students.
Goal: Develop curriculum and services to develop student skills in informatics
Objectives:
- Implement the informatics curriculum plan adopted by the Curriculum Committee.
- Continue to develop online course exams and web based course materials .
- Encourage the use of information technology to monitor areas of rapid advancement in the care and treatment of patients.
- Have the Office of Information Technology continue helping faculty and students develop innovative learning methods and programs.
- Assist students to learn the practical utilization of information technology in the everyday care of their patients.
- Develop an Internet-based system to provide students and faculty access to secure information about their performance.
Principle 9: The educational program must be responsive to emerging needs of society.
Goal: Develop an educational program that is informed by and responsive to multiple constituencies involved in health care delivery
Objectives:
- Appoint community members to the curriculum committee.
- Charge the curriculum committee with refining and updating the competency list so that our curriculum remains up to date and responsive to society's needs.
- Develop curriculum in contemporary health care issues such as managed care, health care financing and geriatrics.
- Maintain a balance of training settings as more care is shifted to an ambulatory base.
- Continue to work with AHEC to provide community based training opportunities that demonstrate the civic responsibility of the institution.
- Develop a flexible curriculum component, "Contemporary Issues in Medicine" which focuses on current community and national issues such as substance abuse, violence, AIDS, teenage pregnancy.
- Develop learning experiences in health care economics.
- Increase the number of opportunities for students to experience the practice of medicine in a managed care environment.
Principle 10: Discovery of new knowledge and solutions are part of the medical profession.
Goal: Develop a curriculum which emphasizes new knowledge and discovery
Objectives:
- Continue to develop the research project course in the first year.
- Encourage research activities by continuing to offer mini grants for educational research.
- Encourage and support medical student involvement in research efforts.
- Enhance the MD/PhD program.
Principle 11: Health care delivery requires individual and team efforts.
Goal: Develop a curriculum fostering an interdisciplinary and multi-professional approach to health care delivery
Objectives:
- Continue to develop the Interdisciplinary Generalist Clerkship.
- Provide consistent curricular time across Health Science Center colleges that will allow multicollege involvement.
- Provide ongoing support for the Interdisciplinary Family Health program and additional interdisciplinary community-based service-learning projects.
- Continue to identify and utilize sites with multi-professional services and foster team building in those sites.
Principle 12: Learning and professional development requires a humane environment, which fosters respect, personal integrity, service orientation and a sense of personal well being.
Goal: Develop an educational environment and sequence that fosters student well being and personal growth.
Objectives:
- Continue to refine the Essentials of Patient Care course as an early exposure to strong Faculty role models serving as mentors.
- Continue to support student on site counseling services.
- Continue to develop student career counseling services.
- Develop curriculum and student support groups to address the issues of death and dying.
- Clearly define a set of professional behavior, human relationship and communication competencies.
