Goals and Outcome Objectives/Competencies Setting Process

1. Goals and Outcome Objectives/Competencies Setting Process Designed to answer these questions: Resulting in: What do we want our students to “look like” at the end of the 4 years of medical school? What do we want our students to “look like” at the end each 1st and 2nd year course? What do we want our students to “look like” at the end of their pre-clinical years? What do we want our students to “look like” at the end each core and specialty clerkship, neuroscience selective, AHEC rotations, and elective? What do we want our students to “look like” at the end of their clinical years? UCCOM Institutional level goals & competencies. Course level goals & competencies. Pre-Clinical Year-level goals & competencies. Clerkship, Elective-level goals & competencies. Clinical Year-level goals and competencies. Process timeline ….……

2. March 2003 – September 2005 (G/C = Goals and Competencies) ECC developed and approved Institutional Level G/Cs

3. UCCOM Institutional Medical Education Goals and Related Competencies The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine strives to graduate physicians with the knowledge, skills and professional behaviors necessary to advance to the next stage of their professional careers and to excel in their chosen areas of medicine. This will be realized by student achievement of the following goals and related competencies. Goal 1. To provide a core curriculum that contains the essential information that enables each student to learn the scientific basis of medicine and the application of that knowledge to the practice of medicine. Students will: Acquire, master and use core biomedical knowledge to guide clinical diagnosis, management, treatment, prevention and discovery Goal 2. To provide a core curriculum that integrates the clinical applications of basic science concepts throughout the four year curriculum, as well as introduces students to the interviewing and physical examination skills integral to the practice of medicine. Students will: Acquire, master and use basic clinical motor and cognitive skills, including problem solving and clinical reasoning, essential to practicing medicine. Acquire, master and use effective interviewing and communication skills Goal 3. To cultivate and nurture a learning environment that fosters a humanistic and compassionate, as well as an ethical, respectful, and culturally competent approach to patient care and to working with other health care providers. Students will: Incorporate ethics and moral reasoning into their clinical decisions. Exhibit behavior that demonstrates professionalism and role recognition. Demonstrate their understanding of the social and community contexts of health care. Goal 4. To institute a teaching approach that fosters student enthusiasm, critical thinking and commitment to lifelong learning. Students will: Demonstrate their ability to use independent learning methods Continually exhibit their information management skills.

4. March 2003 – September 2005 (G/C = Goals and Competencies) Template designed and used to work with Course/Clerkship directors on specific G/Cs ensuring the relationship to Institutional Level G/Cs ECC developed and approved Institutional Level G/Cs

5. Goal and Competency Template

6. March 2003 – September 2005 (G/C = Goals and Competencies) Template designed and used to work with Course/Clerkship directors on specific G/Cs ensuring the relationship to Institutional Level G/Cs ECC developed and approved Institutional Level G/Cs Appropriate curriculum committees review and critique course/clerkship level G/Cs to ensure they answer the questions stated earlier and they relate to Institutional Level G/Cs

7. March 2003 – September 2005 (G/C = Goals and Competencies) Template designed and used to work with Course/Clerkship directors on specific G/Cs ensuring the relationship to Institutional Level G/Cs Appropriate curriculum committees use template and course/clerkship level G/Cs to develop Year level G/Cs ensuring they answer the questions stated earlier and that they related to Institutional Level G/Cs ECC developed and approved Institutional Level G/Cs Appropriate curriculum committees review and critique course/clerkship level G/Cs to ensure they answer the questions stated earlier and they relate to Institutional Level G/Cs

9. Year 1 Medical Education Goals and Competencies Year I Goal 1 Deliver an integrated curriculum in human biology at the molecular, cellular, tissue, organ and whole organism levels to serve as the academic foundation for lifelong learning about health and disease..

10. Year 1 Medical Education Goals and Competencies Year 1 Goal 2 - Integrate the clinical applications of basic science concepts throughout the first year curriculum, as well as introduce students to the interviewing and physical examination skills integral to the practice of medicine

11. Year 1 Medical Education Goals and Competencies Year 1 Goal 3 - Integrate the concepts of humanism, tolerance, ethics, and diversity and the importance of those concepts to the physician-patient relationship and to the practice of medicine.

12. Year 1 Medical Education Goals and Competencies Year 1 Goal 4 - To incorporate participatory approaches to learning that encourage both independent and critical thinking, as well as the development of communication skills.

13. Year 2 Medical Education Goals and Competencies Year 2 Goal 1 - Provide an integrated core curriculum that builds upon the students’ basic science knowledge base by broadening it to include the understanding of how certain alterations in bodily processes may manifest as disease

14. Year 2 Medical Education Goals and Competencies Year 2 Goal 2 -To provide an integrated core curriculum that contains the fundamental knowledge about the processes underlying human diseases, thereby providing the scientific foundation for developing clinical skills.

15. Year 2 Medical Education Goals and Competencies Year 2 Goal 3 - Create opportunities for students to be exposed early-on in their training to humanistic, compassionate and ethical role-models and mentors working in “real-life” settings.

16. Year 2 Medical Education Goals and Competencies Year 2 Goal 4 - Whenever possible, to incorporate a variety of teaching approaches that emphasize students playing a more active, rather than passive, role in the learning process.

17. Clinical Biennium Medical Education Goals and Competencies Clinical Biennium Goal 1 - To provide a core curriculum that integrates core biomedical basic science knowledge with its application to clinical practice.

18. Clinical Biennium Medical Education Goals and Competencies Clinical Biennium Goal 2 - To provide students with the necessary information to develop a core understanding of the clinical manifestations of common diseases, including risk factors, prevention, clinical presentation, clinical course, treatment and prognosis and for students to become proficient with the clinical assessment of both health and disease

19. Clinical Biennium Medical Education Goals and Competencies Clinical Biennium Goal 3 - To provide a curriculum designed to enhance students’ understanding of the ethical principles involved in patient care, the professional responsibilities of a physician in the clinical practice of medicine, and how cultural and societal factors may be involved during clinical assessments and decision making.

20. Clinical Biennium Medical Education Goals and Competencies Clinical Biennium Goal 4 - To provide a curriculum with learning opportunities designed to stimulate students’ intellectual enthusiasm and curiosity.

21. Final Outcome

22. Next…… Relate to the 6 AGCME Competencies And…… Have to make sure it is not just a paper exercise