Presentation to consortium members on July 28, 2014. For more about the consortium, see http://1000obgyns.org/. Since the event, the associated open educational resources have been posted to http://open.umich.edu/education/med/1000obgyns/.

1. Curriculum Development: Increasing access to
and reach of learning resources for OBGYN
training
Presenter:
Kathleen Ludewig Omollo, International Program Manager,
Medical School Information Services, kludewig@umich.edu
Unless otherwise noted, this presentation is Copyright 2014 The Regents of the
University of Michigan. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
July 28, 2014
1000+ OBGYNs in Africa Meeting
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2. 2
Increase awareness of and access to
relevant, affordable, and trusted learning
resources and templates to strengthen the
OBGYN residency curriculum at the partner
institutions.
Objective

3. 3
Tactic: Situate within the local priority and
local context for learning outcomes.
Identified 12 priority topics at partners meeting:
Located examples of how those topics are taught
elsewhere.
• Hypertensive Disorders In
Pregnancy
• Sickle Cell
• Malaria
• Typhoid
• Postpartum Hemorrhage
• Management of Prematurity/Pre-
Term Labor
• Abortion Care
• Labor and Delivery Management
• Puerperal Sepsis
• Sexuality
• Pediatric/Adolescent Gynecology
• Cervical Cancer

4. 4
Tactic: Create process and products to meet
those learning outcomes.
For priority topics:
• Refine the learning outcomes (e.g. competencies,
procedures)
• Define the process (i.e. order topics along a timeline of
where they taught in program)
• Develop the products (e.g. reading list, lectures,
assessments, schedule)
• Build upon products from existing collections of
OBGYN learning resources.

5. 5
Design the delivery of the content:
• Policies for copyright, privacy, and archival records
• Methods for online and offline access
• Instructional approaches for self directed and
facilitated learning experiences
Tactic: Radiate the products across & beyond
the consortium to scale training.

6. 6
Tactic: Collaborate to exchange products and
assess quality.
• Peer feedback on original work
• Joint authorship with or adaptation by peers at other
institutions

7. 7
Discussion
Collaborate
Situate
Radiate
Create
• This approach can be expanded to look
at the residency program level, such as
target learning outcomes by year in
residency.
• Such a framework could promote
consistency and feedback across content
development activities.
• These products would also be useful to
identify gaps in available learning
materials, serve as a reference for
faculty development, and determine
scheduling based on local expertise
available for certain topics.

8. 8
Discussion
Collaborate
Situate
Radiate
Create
Example curriculum dimensions that could
be compared side-by-side across institutions
to show variations in approaches to OBGYN
training:
• Learning outcomes (e.g. competencies,
procedures)
• Course or module topics
• Core, elective
• Specialty, subspecialty
• Timing (year, week, contact time,
length)
• Products (link to existing resources,
request to fill gap where none exists)