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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Med. 2017 Sep;92(9):1264–1268. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001519

List 1.

The Most Significant Change (MSC) Process Steps Used to Evaluate the Impact of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative at the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, 2014–2015a

  1. Identify the domain of change to be examined

  2. Identify the sample populationb

  3. Collect stories of change

  4. Summarize the prevalent themes in the stories and select representative quotes

  5. Verify the stories

  6. Convene stakeholders to select the most significant changes and note criteria they used

  7. Disseminate the results of the selection process

a

The authors used the MSC process6,7 with some adaptations.

b

As with this study, this is usually the most successful cases.