A Curriculum Design and Teaching Experience Created by and for Bioscience Postdoctoral Fellows in a Medical School

Abstract

Many medical school postdoctoral fellows (postdocs) lack training in curriculum design and student-centered instruction. A team of bioscience postdocs and a medical school curriculum assistant dean co-created an experience to fill this gap. Kern's and Kirkpatrick's frameworks were used for the design and evaluation, respectively, of both the postdoc experience and the undergraduate course they developed. Postdocs taught the course using student-centered methods, especially team-based learning and Just-in-Time Teaching. Following a successful pilot phase, this low resource postdoc experience and undergraduate course are regularly offered. Participating postdocs develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to effectively participate in medical school education.

Evaluation in health professions education—Is measuring outcomes enough?

“…It has been used to evaluate a range of education programmes including simulation in medical students, residents and physicians [31][32][33] ; simulation in nursing 34,35 ; interprofessional learning 36 ; continuing professional development [37][38][39] ; online learning 40 ; and curriculum evaluation. 41,42 The model was first published by Donald Kirkpatrick as a series of four articles in 1959 and 1960, [43][44][45][46] which aimed to provide guidance to human relations training directors to increase their evaluation efforts. The New World Kirkpatrick Model builds on the original Kirkpatrick Model and was developed by Donald Kirkpatrick's son and daughter in law (James and Wendy Kirkpatrick) to modernise the model, sometime between 2008 and 2010.…”

“…As mentioned above, the Kirkpatrick Model has been widely used in evaluation in HPE. It has been used to evaluate a range of education programmes including simulation in medical students, residents and physicians 31–33 ; simulation in nursing 34,35 ; interprofessional learning 36 ; continuing professional development 37–39 ; online learning 40 ; and curriculum evaluation 41,42 . The model was first published by Donald Kirkpatrick as a series of four articles in 1959 and 1960, 43–46 which aimed to provide guidance to human relations training directors to increase their evaluation efforts.…”