Curriculum Basics
Tutorials and Information

Curriculum Overview

See examples towards bottom of page

• ACGME Competencies, Milestones, NAS  (web site)
• ACGME Glossary of Terms 
• What is Curriculum? (< 7 minutes)
• Competency-Based Medical Education and Assessment (~ 12 min ppt)
  has link on site to download PowerPoint file: scroll down page for ‘Download ppt “Competency Based Medical Education and Assessment”‘
• What is formal curriculum? (~ 2 minutes)
• Are there any tips to designing curriculum? (~ 4 minutes)
• What is curriculum mapping? (< 3 minutes)
  • Mapping Milestones to Objectives
  • High Level View Example:  UF GME Grid for Milestone Document Subcompetencies by Curriculum Evaluation Data Mapping
• What is the hidden curriculum? Navigating the hidden curriculum (article)
• AAIM Faculty Development Toolkit (website)
• UF College of Medicine — Jacksonville – Faculty Development (Website)

Special Curricular Topics (Community and Belonging)

• UF Library’s Anti Discrimination Resources 
• The Association of Program Directors in Surgery Toolkit   
• AAMC Toolkit Resources 
• APA Toolkit
• Harvard’s Project Implicit – Implicit Association Test Links

Local Community Resources:

• 211 by United Way of North Central Florida  
• 2020 Alachua County Community Resource Guide  
• Aunt Bertha:  Search for free or reduced cost services like medical care, food, job training and more  
• UFHealth Office of Interprofessional Education:   Health Information Wheel 
• UFHealth Shands Needs Assessment Platform:  one-stop resource for online access to community health indicators, promising practices, funding opportunities and resources that impact the health of our community  
• UF COM Jacksonville Faculty Development

Goals, Objectives, Competencies & EPAs

• What is the difference between a goal/aim and an objective? (in < 3 minutes)
• What are SMART goals? — great for QI projects (in < 5 minutes)
• JGME article on goals, objectives, competencies and EPAs (pdf website)
• Writing GME goals and objectives toolkit (pdf website)
  • CABD method to write learning objectives (< 5 minutes)
  • How do I write well-defined learning objectives? (web site)
• Do the verbs I use in learning objectives matter? — think rotation vs course  (< 2 minutes)
  • What is Blooms Taxonomy? (~ 2 minutes)
  • Revised Blooms Taxonomy – verbs, assessments, questioning strategies (pdf)
  • Creating Learning Objectives – Twitter Thread with examples by Geoff Stetson, MD
• What are competencies? (~3 minutes)
• What is competency-based medical education (CBME)? (< 2 minutes)
• Why have CBME? (~ 2 minutes)
• An introduction to competency-based medical education and competence by design (< 8 min)
• NEW  How to set SMART Goals/Aims — Why written objectives need to be really SMART – OITT Framework
• NEW  General concepts of goals and goal-setting in healthcare:  A narrative review – full text PDF

Teaching Strategy Examples

• Ask Tell Ask Feedback Sandwich (< 4 minutes)
• Using Ask-Tell-Ask (1 minute)
• UAB’s MedEd Moments:  short videos on setting expectations, giving feedback, teaching procedures, improving the learning climate, and enhancing evaluations.
• Brown Faculty Five in Five:  Feedback (<6 min)
• Article on three teaching models (traditional vs OMP vs SNAPPS)
  • LEGO Surgery:  One Minute Preceptor (5 min)
  • Mayo Clinic Take 5:  One Minute Preceptor (6 min)
  • One Minute Preceptor Model (OMP) (pdf website)
  • Demonstration of OMP: without OMP/traditional (~ 2 min) vs. with OMP (< 5 min)
  • Demonstration of SNAPPS:  SNAPPs Introduction (< 3 min) and using SNAPPS (< 4 min)
  • What is a flipped classroom or didactics learning strategy? (1 minute)

Evaluation

The Evaluation should be planned at same time as curriculum development

• What are the basics on assessment versus evaluation? (< 5 minutes)
• Brown Five in Five:  Evaluations Demystified (< 6 min)
• Brown Five in Five:  Direct Observation (< 7 min)
• JGME article on types of evaluations used by residency programs
• What types of evaluation do I need and when?

Curriculum Examples

Goals and Objectives for the Overall Program

• Example 1 PROGRAM Goals and Educational Objectives for ACGME programs 
• Example 2 PROGRAM Goals and Educational Objectives for ACGME programs
• Example Generic NON-Accredited PROGRAM Goals and Objectives (includes 6 Competencies) (word document

Required Rotation/Longitudinal Experience Goals and Objectives Template

• This is the Goals and Objectives format the UF COM GME office is asking programs to use:  Rotation goals and objectives Template 2 9 2022   UPDATED 2 9 2022      

Expected Graduate Skills and Competencies:  Skills and Competencies residents/fellows are able to demonstrate at end of the program (for ACGME program ADS uploads)

If applicable, include a list of procedures that your residents/fellows will be competent and/or proficient in

• UF Example

Graduate Skills and Competency List Example

Updated 11/6/2023