Curriculum Design and Scholarship for New Educators: A Professional Development Workshop for Medical Students.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Medical students' professional development includes their role as educators. Despite greater opportunities to join medical education curriculum development, medical students' engagement in these activities remains limited. A recent national study on student leadership in curricular change revealed a formal lack of leadership and training in medical education as significant barriers. Medical students' unawareness of how to disseminate curricula as educational scholarship and its value to their careers also restricts the fullness of their formation as educators.

Methods

We designed a 3-hour, interactive, project-focused conference workshop for medical students without prior knowledge in curriculum development. Of participants, 64 worked in 10 groups creating medic

SUBMITTER: Schlegel EFM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8071841 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature