UMMS Curriculum ReVolution: Recent Episodes
CR Leadership Team
Please join the PIC co-directors for an update on their work building and operationalizing the PIC curriculum.
A big thank you to all our build teams or their work on Vista rom Deans Flotte and Larkin.
As we settle into a stable structure for the discovery phase of the new curriculum, management and oversight of the curriculum will move away from the Vista Leadership Team and to our usual curriculum QI and oversight entities.
In celebration of our named pathways leaders, this podcast reviews the curriculum development and vision of the pathways program at UMCMS to day.
Hear a few suggestions for and brief reviews of MedEd podcasts that may be of interest to you.
UMCMS applied to be a part of the OSCE's for clinical reasoning NBME creative community. Come hear about our application and platform.
The EPC has charged a rapid action team with exploring the feasibility and impact of a competency based grading system vs. traditional clerkship grades.
Please join us for the final Longitudinal Focus Topic podcast with Alan Acosta, the Assistant Vice Provost for Student life and our Patient and Provider Wellness (PPW) LFT.
Please join us to chat with Dr. Susan Hogan regarding the Societal Forces Longitudinal Focused Topic. This is our third podcast in the LFT Series where Dr. Hogan will talk about the group's domains and curricular plans.
This is our 2nd installment in the Longitudinal Focus Topic Podcast Series and we are joined by Dr. Carter, the HEDI team leader to discuss their work with this longitudinal thread in Vista.
Formerly known as the longitudinal benchmark topics; these LFTs include Health Systems Science, Health Equity Diversity and Inclusion, Societal Forces of Health & Disease, Patient and Clinician Wellness. We start a podcast series on these content areas with today's HSS podcast and Assistant Dean of HSS, Dr. Gitkind
Learn about 3 techniques for clinical questioning including the one minute preceptor, think aloud and SNAPPS.
Just a fun podcast about trying to use some of our UMASS Chan pedagogies in a 4th grade classroom.
Come hear about the 3rd and 4th year build team activities - What will the clinical years structure and curriculum look like and what decisions have been made? What are the challenges faced by these build teams? Who has been involved in this process?
Work continues on our accelerated (3yr MD) program and this week's podcast is an update on that planning with a focus on the timeline.
A review of some MedEd literature on Boot Camps (intern prep courses) for 4th year medical students.
Longitudinal Benchmark Topics include HSS, HEDI, PCH and Wellness. The leaders of these areas have come together to create standard processes for working with build teams and creating toolkits.
A very successful component of the LiNC curriculum has been the doctoring and clinical skills small group sessions. These engaging, discussion based meetings cover a range of skills and knowledge for physicians. They already touch on many of our benchmark topics like health systems science, wellness and social determinants of health. For all these reasons we hope to expand the footprint of DCS small groups in the new curriculum.
COVID19 encouraged rapid change in Education - How has this experience influenced how we are building the new curriculum?
LPAT has gathered recommended and validated assessment types for our consideration in the new curriculum. Come hear about the 12 assessment types that made the list!
How and when will the curriculum committees turn over to their new structure? What is the timeline?
This is dependent on EPC approval of the new CC structure.
Please listen to the June 11th podcast for curriculum oversight plan details.
The core clinical build team has been working hard to design a core clinical schedule in the new curriculum and there has been much to consider! Come hear about all the principles and considerations that went into this model and what we think are the highlights.
As UMMS builds our own "3 year MD" program we look to CAMPP for input, experience and advice. This consortium for accelerated programs grows every year and has come together to guide other schools in this process and track outcomes.
What are the "What I Need" (WIN) weeks? Today we talk about the WIN weeks and the concept around WIN weeks in the foundational curriculum. How will they be used by students?
The leadership team members share some book recommendations related to our CR22 work in this podcast. Not all of them are the "bring to the beach" type but a few are. Enjoy!
The longitudinal progression and assessment team (LPAT) has been hard at work designing a holistic and meaningful assessment strategy. Join us to hear about their approach and work to date.
Today we discuss our proposal for the structure of the curriculum committees (also known as the EPC Subcommittees) for CR22. This redesign is intended to support and manage our new 3 pillar, integrated curriculum.
Join Jillian & Manas to talk more about problem based learning and PBL plans in the new curriculum.
This panel discusses augmented and extended virtual reality's role in medical education and at UMASS Medical School and highlights a call for proposals.
Dr. Lela Giannaris joins us to discuss the work of integrating anatomy in the new curriculum.
Where do we stand building the third pillar (Health Systems Science)? We are joined by Mitch Gitkind to answer this question.
This week we talk about clinical integration (occasionally referred to as vertical integration) and case based learning.
Our external resources proposal was shared with the community this week in several forums and areas of concern were expressed by the many stakeholders. This included faculty expectations and funding. Join us for an update on the discussion.
We are joined today by student and faculty leaders in simulation education at UMMS. We talk about why simulation is so effective, the different types of simulation experiences that exist, the student view of simulation and how to get started developing simulation activities as part of our curriculum redesign.
A quick summary of what the various CR22 project elements have accomplished and what they are up to currently.
We took the opportunity to look at another medical school's curriculum this week for similarities, differences and ideas! Enjoy hearing about the University of Michigan medical school curriculum.
This week we'll talk about who our biomedical longitudinal consultants are, their content areas and their work flow.
Special thank you to Ashton, Manas and Melissa for scripting this episode.
Learn about the EHR-classroom with Stephan Roll (academic technology) and Alex Menard (GSN faculty). What is it? How can it be used in the curriculum? Who is already using it?
LCME Standard 9.5 states the we should provide narrative descriptions of a medical student's performance in each course/rotation. Let's talk about what that means in more depth. This podcast was jointly developed with Manas Das.
One of the things our core clinical build team needs to consider is how long each clerkship should ideally be. This week we look around at the typical clerkship durations at other schools.
Content created by Ashton Gunn --> What are longitudinal consultants? What is the difference between "benchmark" and "biomedical" consultants? What do we expect longitudinal benchmark consultants to be doing in the curriculum revolution design process?
Most UMMS students use external resources to help with rotation & course performance as well as for USMLE prep. Sometimes it is in conjunction with UMMS materials and sometimes it is in place of course-offered resources. Here we ask current students how they use these resources and why.
Come hear about our development of the 3 year MD track from one of our working group members, Manas.
We're excited to be starting the Curriculum ReVolution EPC approval process - come listen to the plan for how that will occur.
The first of the weekly installments for UMMS Curriculum ReVolution's podcast series
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