1. Curriculum Inventory Administrators’ Group November 8, 2017
Terri Cameron, MA
Director, Curriculum Programs

2. Agenda AAMC Medical Education Update CI 2016-2017 Upload Statistics
Veronica Catanese, MD, LCME Secretariat
Medical School Highlight: Virginia Commonwealth University
November CI in Context: Transition to Residency / Boot Camps
December CI in Context: Tracks in Medical Education
Next meeting: Wednesday, December 13, 1 pm ET

3. AAMC Medical Education Cluster Update
Senior Director, Medical Education Research
Dorothy Andriole, MD (January 8, 2018)
Currently Associate Professor of Surgery and Assistant Dean for Medical Education at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, with a long-standing educational research interest in medical education outcomes and medical graduate career paths.
Responsible for developing a research agenda focused on educational outcomes across the continuum of medical education and will assist the Core EPA project in ongoing program evaluation.
Director, Curriculum Programs
Job posted and applications coming in

4. Review of 2016-2017 Upload Cycle
90 Schools
120 Schools (82 of 90 retained; 28 new schools)
135 Schools (114 retained; 21 new schools)
141 Verified
(10 new schools)
133 Verified (4 new schools)
(only 1 US school has not uploaded in at least 1 cycle)
US Medical Schools 85
115
127
134
131
Canadian Medical Schools 5 2
US Osteopathic Schools (Pilot )
n/a 3

6. Academic Level (1 to 4 only)
Required Sequence Blocks (Preliminary Data):
Required SB
Integrated
Rotation
Course
Academic Level (1 to 4 only)
Schools
Sequence Blocks 1 2
118
1337 9 65
110
1072 3 18 64 79
560 81
397 4 10 51
210 68
544

7. 75th 1262
Med. 995
Avg. 948
25th 705

12. Veronica Catanese, MD, LCME Secretariat

13. Lessons Learned from Curriculum Renewal
Susan R. DiGiovanni, M.D.
Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs

14. Curriculum Renewal-timeline
Began 2008 with focus groups
Implemented 2013
LCME site visit 2016
First upload to Curriculum Inventory of new curriculum 2016

15. C3 Curriculum Centered on the Needs of the Learner Patient Centered
Competency Based

16. Structure
Course
Division
Unit
Lesson

17. MEDICAL CURRICULUM medschool.vcu.edu/md PRE-CLINICAL CLINICAL
MS1 PHASE
MS2A PHASE
MS2B PHASE
MS3 / MS4 CORE & ADVANCED CLINICAL CONCENTRATIONS
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
Scientific Foundations of Medicine
Applied Medical Sciences
Break
Applied Medical Sciences
USMLE Step 1 8 2 6 4 4 2 6
Break 8 6 4
USMLE Step 2 4 4 4 4 4
Break 4 4 4 4 2
The Physician, Patient and Society (Longitudinal)
Practice of Clinical Medicine (Longitudinal)
Population Health and Evidence Based Medicine (Longitudinal)
Scientific Foundations of Medicine
Applied Medical Sciences
Core Clerkships (# of weeks)
Advanced Electives (4 weeks)
Advanced Concentration (4 weeks)
Molecular Basis of Health and Disease
Principles of Physiology
Principles of Autonomics &Pharmacology
Immunity and Infection
Foundations of Disease
Marrow and Movement
Hematology/Oncology
Musculoskeletal
Glands and Guts Gastrointestinal &Metabolism
Endocrine
Reproduction
C.P.R.
Cardiology
Pulmonary
Respiratory/Genitourinary
Mind, Brain & Behavior Neuroscience
Behavioral Sciences Neuropathology
Internal Medicine (8)
Surgery (8)
Pediatrics (6)
Obstetrics & Gynecology (6)
Psychiatry (4)
Family Medicine (4)
Neurology (4)
Clerkships schedule based on availability
Anatomy & Neurobiology
Anesthesiology
Dermatology
Emergency Medicine
Family Medicine Foundations of Clinical Medicine
Human Genetics
Internal Medicine
International Health Studies
Neurology
Neurosurgery
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedic Surgery
Otolaryngology
Pathology
Pediatrics
Pharmacology & Toxicology
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Psychiatry
Radiation Oncology
Radiology
Surgery
Urology
Electives schedule based on availability
Ambulatory Clerkship
Urgent Care Sub-Internship
Concentrations schedule based on availability
Foundational Elective (2 weeks)
Acting Internship (4 weeks)
Capstone Course (2 weeks)
medschool.vcu.edu/md

18. Nomenclature Learners were called MS-1 first semester
M2’s second and 3rd semester
MS2a
MS2b

19. Curriculum Structure now
Course
Lesson
Students are M1’s first year
M2’s second year until April when they become M3’s
M3’s become M4’s in April

21. Proposals for Spring/Summer Education Meetings
Making schools aware of potential of CI for research, benchmarking, curriculum development, curriculum reform, etc.

22. Enhanced Search Results for Online CI Reports

23. New Custom Content Report Template:
Three year view of:
Participation/Documentation of Content
Content Documentation by Academic Level
Instructional Methods
Assessment Methods
Resources
Competencies

24. CI in Context: November 2017
Will highlight new chart based on LCME Annual Questionnaire, Part II:
Does the medical school require a separate course in the fourth year of the curriculum that aims to prepare medical students for the transition to residency?  
provide the length (number of weeks) of the course.
indicate if the course is specialty specific or generic for all fourth-year medical students.
indicate topics addressed in the course
Transitions to Residency in US Medical Schools
Seeking Author

25. CI in Context: December 2017
Will highlight new chart based on CI Data related to number of schools with tracks and details about tracks
Transitions to GME / Boot Camps
Seeking Author

26. CI for CQI and Accreditation (CICA)
CICA will resume meetings in November.

27. CI for CQI and Accreditation (CICA)
CICA will resume meetings in November.
Priorities:
Determining specifically each DCI Standard/Question CI could support
Developing CI Charts that show national responses to those questions for benchmarking and CQI purposes
Adding as many of these charts as possible to the Verification Report
May take a couple of years to add all the tables
Reviewing options for other formats (spreadsheets?)

28. Curriculum Inventory Research Group
October 4 Retreat resulted in kick-off of three research projects:
What is a clerkship? (Brian Mavis and Tanya Horsley)
What is replacing lectures in medical education? (Colleen Grochowski and Carolyn DuFault)
What is the life expectancy of curriculum? What are facilitators and barriers to reform? (Brian Mavis and Jeanne Farnan)

29. Next meeting: Wednesday, November 8, 1 pm ET
(Second Wednesday of each month, 1 pm ET)
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