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. 2024 Aug 15;16(4):461–468. doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-24-00002.1

Table 1.

Graduate Medical Education Elective Curriculum Map

Learning Objectives Content Methods Assessment/Evaluation
Goal: To enhance the teaching knowledge and skills of residents and fellows and to promote their understanding of introductory concepts in medical education
Theme: teaching skills
Describe introductory concepts in adult learning theory and apply those concepts to their teaching
Describe medical education clinical and didactic teaching tools and discuss the evidence for their use as best practice
  • Adult learning theory

  • Large group teaching

  • Chalk talks

  • Clinical teaching

  • Feedback

  • Small group teaching

  • Teaching procedures

  • Bias and inclusion

  • Remediation

  • Simulation

  • Didactics

  • OSTEs

  • OSFE

  • Microteaching

  • Direct observation and feedback of teaching

  • Project presentations

  • COLT

  • Teaching skills survey

  • Peer presentation rubric

  • OSTE rubric

  • Exit tickets/final survey

Theme: curriculum design
Outline approaches to curriculum design in medical education
Develop learning objectives and an assessment plan for an observed teaching session
  • Curriculum design

  • Learning objectives

  • Hidden curriculum

  • Clinical evaluation

  • Didactics

  • OSTE

  • Microteaching

  • Project presentations

  • COLT

  • Teaching skills survey

  • Peer presentation rubric

  • OSTE rubric

  • Exit ticks/final survey

Theme: professional development
Discuss potential careers in medical education and reflect upon this field as a career option
  • Teaching Perspectives Inventory

  • Careers in medical education

  • CV workshop

  • Management and leadership

  • Didactics

  • Lunch discussions

  • Discussed reflections

  • Exit tickets/final survey

Theme: education scholarship
Appraise the value of medical education scholarship
  • Medical education scholarship

  • Journal club

  • Didactics

  • Discussed reflection

  • Exit tickets/final survey

Abbreviations: GME, graduate medical education; OSTE, objective structured teaching examination; OSFE, objective structured feedback examination; COLT, Conceptions of Learning and Teaching.