What we learned in the development of a third-year medical student curricular project.

ABSTRACT: The application of continuous systems improvement in medical education can provide actionable information for curriculum development, improvement, and future planning (as reported by Bowe and Armstrong, Acad Med 92:585-92, 2017). After receiving a medical education grant, we developed a curriculum to teach medical students how to use quality improvement (QI) to address health disparities in vulnerable populations. During the process of developing and implementing this curriculum, we learned several lessons.One of the major surprises was that our proposed project work took much longer to complete than anticipated. This was mainly because we did not have the right team assembled from the beginning. Specifically, we were missing a team member with evaluation expertise, and therefore we did no

SUBMITTER: D de la Cruz MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8187514 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature