Your Secret Weapon to curriculum innovation

Session Outline – IAMSE, student input
Author: Paul de Roos
Abstract
Title: Your secret weapon to curriculum innovation,
Subtitle: taking student involvement to the next level.
Abstract authors: Paul de Roos, Kattria van der Ploeg, Michiel de Graaf, Maarten Vink, Nikos Davaris (IFMSA representative), Ahmet Murt (on behalf of EMSA)
Participants: 20-40, international medical educators
Facilitators: local and international experts in student involvement
Room needed: with movable chairs, 3 or 4 flipcharts, markers, sticky notes
Duration: 1,5 hours
Why: Again innovation… Again higher demands on the medical educator… Again less teaching hours in your course… Again poor evaluation results… The life of a medical educator is not easy. Often combining research and / or clinical work with teaching classes in an environment with ever increasing demands on professionalisation is a tough job: your job!
What: Every country and every culture has different approaches to involving students in medical education. No matter what the starting point is in your medical school when it comes to student involvement, it’s worth the effort to move it forward. This session will be an interactive dissection class, in which we will take a close look at the anatomy of student involvement and at measures to move this to the next level.
How: After a brief introduction and inventory of experience of session participants, we will go into small group discussions with a series of questions, to address issues based on the profile of the participants. Sharing of experiences and identification of keys to overcome obstacles will be the core of our discussion.
Take home message: As a medical educator you can use many different roles and approaches to engage students in your curriculum reform agenda. By using leadership skills like coaching and training it’s possible to move student involvement and support for your ideas beyond your current imagination.
Session Timeline
Time10 minutesIntroduction & Session Outline – facilitators introduce themselves15 minutesParticipants move in a smaller groups 5-15 participants per group – depending on attendance, introduce themselves and set their personal session objective, Every Group has a student facilitator. 15 minutesGetting all to same level of understandingMake overview: how do you involve students in quality assurance, quality improvement and innovation of education? What tasks/roles do you give them?15 minutesStart knowledge sharing – notes on flipchartAre there any aspects of student involvement which you wish to improve? Has anyone got experience with making this improvement?What aspects of your student involvement are you particularly happy with? What challenges were there to face with implementation?15 minutesPresentation of discussion outcomesPlenary presentation of small group discussion outcomes15 minutes Full group problem solving discussion: what skills / attitudes are needed from students and staff to optimally contribute to involving students5 minutesWrap up & Take Home Message: moving from student involvement to students as educational partners – to achieve this we need to invest in an infrastructure of transfer of knowledge, skills and attitudes among active students within their organizations as well as in connection with staff development in the field of education. When students become true educational partners, education at all levels improves it’s focus on growing together rather than solely about teaching and being taught. As students we feel that an improved notion of teamwork and leadership in education will also improve our ability to make a meaningful contribution in the healthcare team in which we hope to work as junior doctors after graduation.

Your Secret Weapon to curriculum innovation

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