8813 - UME Innovations; Learn, Apply, & Develop - Practical strategies to refine your UME teaching approach

Course Description

Join members of the UME curriculum team who will share practical examples of curriculum innovations, and work with you to apply them to your teaching tasks. You will have the opportunity to find out how Generalism, Collaborative Integration, and Constructive Alignment can make your teaching more effective. During each workshop, you will choose two innovations and apply them to your teaching deliverables. Faculty are encouraged to participate in both workshops and address all three innovations, and/or revise and refine their teaching approach.   

What You Will Learn

At the completion of this workshop, participants will be able to

• described three UME curriculum innovations
• analyze how these innovations may be applied to their teaching content
• plan the next steps to refining and strengthening their teaching deliverables

Breakout groups Learning Objectives

Generalism

1. Describe the role of generalism in a competency based medical education curriculum
2. Review an example of how curricular content can be adapted to fit the generalist focus of the curriculum
3. Examine one’s own existing curricular materials and apply a generalism lens to align content to fit within current pedagogy

Collaborative Integration

1. Describe how to authentically integrate different basic and clinical sciences into learning sessions
2. Analyze a topic area and determine which topics can be integrated across the sciences or systems
3. Develop learning activities that integrate multiple disciplines, systems, and/or topics

Constructive Alignment

1. Describe the principles of the constructive alignment model of curriculum design
2. Apply the principles of constructive alignment to case scenarios
3. Develop an approach to teaching for a component of your course or session using the constructive alignment framework

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