Advance Course In Medical Education

Medical Council of India

CURRICULUM DOCUMENT FOR ADVANCED COURSE IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

1. BACKGROUND:

There is a recognized need for advancing the field of medical education as well as to bring in current trends and practices into it. However, there are limited opportunities for faculty in India to advance in the field of medical education. The MCI basic workshop in Medical Education Technologies require faculty to attain a certain level of expertise in medical education for quality assurance of the basic courses. There is also a need to provide a platform for medical educators to network.

Keeping all this in cognizance, Medical Council of India proposes the following curricular reform:

Advanced course in medical education for medical faculty to be conducted by the MCI recognized Nodal centres.

2. GOAL/PURPOSE:

To develop educational practitioners who can lead educational changes in their institution to make medical education responsive to the health needs of the society.

3. EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES

a. Broad Objectives:

· To develop educational leaders

· Build capacity of medical faculty to become effective facilitators of learning

· Develop ability to take better pedagogic decisions

· Be able to promote self learning & reflective learning in classroom situations

· Promote educational networking

· Developing a community of learners

· Able to serve as effective resource persons for the basic course at their own institution

· Empower faculty to implement and sustain educational innovations in their institutions

· Augmenting use of ICT devices in teaching learning processes

b. Content

c. Teaching- Learning Methods

· Interactive workshop based supported with online discussions and project guidance

d. Assessment:

· Self assessment

· Assessment on group presentations: a. Peer assessment b. Faculty assessment

· Assessment of project work

· Assessment of online discussions

4. CURRICULUM ORGANIZATION

· 90% Standard Format

· 10% as per local needs

5. IMPLEMENTATION

a. This curriculum will be delivered by the MCI Nodal centres twice a year. A prior two day training to cover the logistics and online facilitation for 5 Resource faculty from each Nodal Centre will be organised at MCI.

b. Duration of the Course:

· One year

· Two onsite sessions of 5 days and 3 days each

· Overlap of one day on Day 3 between two batches

· Parallel session for Batch A and Batch B from Day 4 onwards

c. Eligibility criteria for participants:

· Successful completion of the MCI Basic course

· At least three years of teaching experience

· Recommendation from the Dean/ Principal

d. In case the number of participants are more selection criteria needs to be developed. Few guidelines for selection criteria:

· Member of MEU

· Educational publications

· Faculty in basic workshop and other educational workshops

· Awards in educational related activities

ii. Participant registration fees: Rs 10,000/ participant/course (enhanced to Rs.12,500/= w.e.f. Jan 2015)

e. Criteria for course completion:

· Hundred percent attendance in onsite session 1 and session 2

· Active participation in all online discussions

· Completion of educational project

· Poster presentation of educational project at the end of 6 months

· Satisfactory performance in the assessment criteria

Course completion certificate will be issued jointly by MCI and the Nodal centre at the end of one year, in the same pattern of the Basic Course Workshop. The conferment of Certificate will be done ceremonially.

6. Plan for Evaluation of the advanced course

Immediate: To evaluate participant satisfaction and learning

Daily session feedback

Retro pre post evaluation

Assessment criteria

Expected outcome: Medical faculty will apply educational principles in bringing about educational reforms.

Plan for evaluation has to be made and implemented by an evaluation core team for intermediate and long term outcomes to evaluate whether transfer of learning has occurred and if it brings beneficial effects to the society and addresses the needs of the country.

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