Course description
CPD courses are delivered at the Queen's Campus, Stockton through short 4-5 day intensive classroom teaching blocks.
Module Description:
Prerequisites
- None
Corequisites
- None
Excluded Combination of Modules
- None
Aims
- To develop a good practical understanding of the importance and measurement of non-cognitive properties in medical education.
Content
- Learning theories that are important in medical education
- Historical development of professionalism measures
- Can professionalism be taught?
- The role of role modelling
- Formal, informal and hidden curricula
- Personal Qualities Assessment
- Methods for measurement of attitudes
- Validity and reliability in challenging settings
- Tools and instruments in use in the UK and internationally
- Professional revalidation in the UK and internationally
- Future developments
Learning OutcomesSubject-specific Knowledge:
- By the end of module students will have developed:
- Critical appreciation of the literature on professionalism assessment
- An advanced knowledge and critical understanding of the psychometric properties of professionalism measures
- An awareness of the role of professionalism measures in revalidation of medical practitioners
Subject-specific Skills:
- Students will have gained skills in:
- Practical development and use of professionalism measures
- Interpretation of the outcomes of standard tools
- The ability to integrate professionalism measures with other assessment modalities
Key Skills:
- The capacity for sustained interprofessional learning and work at an advanced level and the ability to learn through reflection on practice and experience
- The ability to communicate effectively across specialised subject and professional areas;
- Enhanced personal effectiveness: advanced skills of self-awareness, time management including working to deadlines, sensitivity to diversity in people and different situations and the ability to sustain learning;
- The ability to select and use appropriate advanced numerical techniques.
Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module
- Lecturing - Explains basic principles in a way that allows learners to build their own understanding - Examines challenges in the literature, not readily resolvable by novices - Provides motivation to learners
- Tutorials and seminars - Allow students to work through concepts in more detail, providing both teacher and peer led input, promoting discussion and developing the interprofessional communication and working skills
- Structured reading - Allows students to pursue topics in greater detail enabling both familiarity with key texts and a deeper understanding of the subject knowledge generally
- Practical sessions - Provide practical guidance and experience in professionalism measures design and development
- Independent study, research and analysis - Focuses student knowledge more deeply by pursuing aspects of the module that are of special interest to themselves.
- Written assessment permits demonstration of students' conceptual and critical understanding, ability to marshal arguments and present them in a written format in a sound and convincing fashion, and to reflect upon the meaning and measures of professionalism in medicine from an educative context.
Lecture 10 weekly 1 hr10Tutorial/seminar 10 weekly 1 hr 30 mins15Structured Reading 10 setsweekly 3 hrs 30Practical exercises 3 Occasionally 26 Library researching/Independent study Student initiatedStudent determined89
Lecture - 10 weekly @ 1 hour = 10hrs
Tutorial/Seminar- 10 weekly @ 1 hour 30 mins = 15hrs
Structured reading -10 sets weekly @ 3 hours = 30hrs
Practical exercises - 3 Occasionally @ 2 hrs = 6hr
Library researching/Independent study - Student initiated/Student determined = 89hrs
Total Hours = 150
Summative Assignment: Essay @ 3000 words = 100%
Formative Assessment: Written comments on presentation in class.
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