Overview
General Learning Outcomes
Specific Learning Outcomes
The overall desired outcome of ESME is that participants will obtain, apply and begin to continuously develop a more comprehensive and skilled approach to medical education. The ESME course will provide a framework and guide with which to navigate new ideas about medical education, assessing, teaching and learning. It will also offer practical approaches for the multiple roles, responsibilities, and expectations of new and/or relatively inexperienced teachers in today’s complex medical education environments. The emphasis will be on three essential competencies:
- Effective teacher
- Informed assessor/evaluator
- Skilled educational planner
Their integration and linkage into a dynamic network of educational practices will result in more meaningful medical education. For example: teaching in a clinical setting becomes more meaningful and effective when it is linked with reflective dialogue and quality feedback to learners. Performance assessment becomes more meaningful when it is linked to self-assessment and formative and summative approaches. The sciences basic to medicine become more meaningful when experienced and applied in different contexts. Planning educational experiences becomes more meaningful when they are linked to effective assessment, multiple teaching methods and well defined, clear learning outcomes. Improved teaching and learning lead to better patient care and healthy people.
It is expected that participants will change the way they think about and practice teaching, learning, assessment and medical education; that their educational work will become more transformative and be more grounded in best practices. Outcomes, described below (Fink, 2003), will be derived from the dynamic linkage of the three key competencies and will include:
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Foundational Knowledge in Medical Education - Basic principles of learning, memory and feedback; criteria for and application of effective assessments; a practical framework and guidelines for planning, conducting and evaluating teaching in different venues and different levels using multiple methods; and the role of technology in medical education.
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Application of Foundational Knowledge -Thinking about and applying new knowledge about teaching/learning and seeing opportunities for continuing to develop skills in teaching/learning.
- Integration - Seeing the dynamics of the relationships and connections among the three essential competencies.
- Human Dimension - Discovering the personal and social implications of what is being learned; being reflective about teaching and learning; helping students realize their own way to learn; recognizing that different people learn in different ways.
- Caring - Developing and integrating new values, interests and feelings about teaching and learning.
- Life-long Education - As a process of learning in the macro and micro context of the work place, learning that is inclusive of others and seeks to continuously develop co-workers in the educational setting and work place.
ESME Course: General Learning Outcomes
A General learning outcomes
At the end of the five-day ESME Course, participants will have:
- Begun to build an essential vocabulary and broad overview of contemporary issues, questions and practices in medical education
- Developed and implemented a basic framework inclusive of the three competencies that will serve as a guide for their continued development as medical educators
- Explored different methods and venues for teaching and learning
- Expanded their concepts and practices of assessment of learners
At the end of the ESME Certificate Course, participants will have also:
- Created a portfolio containing evidence of their educational work implementing and linking the three competencies
- Provide evidence that they have read literature relevant to their educational work
- Begun to build and maintain resources for medical education
- Presented a written plan for their continued development as teachers and educators
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B Specific learning outcomes
Although specific learning outcomes are presented separately as part of each of the three competencies, it is important to keep in mind that it is their dynamic linkage that is essential for effective medical educators. Not all outcomes and competencies will receive the same weighting in the course.
After completing the course, participants will have a basic framework for understanding essential concepts of teaching/learning, knowledge of vocabulary and familiarity with guidelines for practical implementation in their roles as:
- Effective teacher
- Informed assessor/evaluator
- Skilled educational planner
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