1. Curriculum Development and Assessment in Medical Education Sultan Qaboos University College of Medicine and Health Sciences 22- 23 April 2009 Professor Nigel Bax Academic Unit of Medical Education School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences University of Sheffield, UK n.d.s.bax@sheffield.ac.uk

4. Questions we need to answer:

5. What are the features of a medical professional?

6. Questions we need to answer: What are the features of a medical professional? Are we selecting the right people for admission?

7. Questions we need to answer: What are the features of a medical professional? Are we selecting the right people for admission? How do students and doctors develop these attributes?

8. Questions we need to answer: What are the features of a medical professional? Are we selecting the right people for admission? How do students and doctors develop these attributes? How do we know that they have them?

9. Questions we need to answer: What are the features of a medical professional? Are we selecting the right people for admission? How do students and doctors develop these attributes? How do we know that they have them? Selection – Curriculum – Assessment – Work as a doctor

10. Aims of the two days To analyse the vision of your new curriculum To discuss how the vision becomes a sustainable reality To consider learning and teaching strategies To understand the principles underpinning assessment To ‘participate’ in an OSCE To engage in blueprinting and standard setting

11. Curriculum development and implementation Wednesday 22 April 2009 09.00 – 09.05 Welcome 09.05 – 10.15 Workshop Analysing the vision for the new curriculum 10.15 – 10.45 Refreshments 10.45 – 12.00 Presentation and discussion Translating the vision into reality 12.00 – 13.00 LUNCH 13.00 – 14.00 Lecture Curriculum Development and Assessment in Medical Education 14.00 – 15.15 Workshop Developing learning and teaching strategies 15.15 – 16.15 Feedback and summary of the day

12. Principles and Practice of Assessment Thursday 23 April 2009 09.00 – 09.45 Presentation Overview of assessment – test methods and standard setting 09.45 – 10.30 The OSCE Old and new style assessments and an OSCE film 10.30 – 11.00 Refreshments 11.00 – 12.30 Demonstration and participation An OSCE in action 12.30 – 13.15 LUNCH 13.15 – 14.15 Workshop Constructing a test and blueprinting 14.15 – 15.45 Workshop Standard setting 15.45 – 16.00 Concluding comments