Table 5.

Some challenges faced by the module committee during module implementation in two academic years

Year	Challenge	Intervention
2012-2013	Inappropriateness of the teaching method to the LOs of some patient safety topic reported by students and reflected on their learning	Changing teaching mode of some lectures to practical sessions) (e.g., hospital safety and disaster medicine)
	Learning resources were difficult to be accessed by the students	Improving the website of the module with more learning resources
		Activating the learning management system (LMS) Utilize more social media
		Upload the module lectures on the website
	Assessment strategies needs improvement.	Introducing e-exams
	Separation of the module from the internal medicine course as was requested by the students	Discussed with Phase II committee and unfortunately it was rejected
2015-2016	Involvement of a few number of teaching faculty in offering the module	Diverse faculty members from different specialties and background as well as some administrative staff with expertise in patient safety were added to participate in module teaching
	Inconsistency in evaluation of students’ projects	Adding objective peer evaluation to be a part of the safety project evaluation
		To use a standardized checklist for project evaluation
		To invite external evaluators for the evaluation of the projects to improve the assessment
	Improvement of the quality of students’ assessment	Adding more questions to the item bank
		Revising and ensure sticking to the blueprint
		Conducting formative assessment with feedback given to students on their projects, and students with difficulty were counselled by module coordinator
	Separate the module from the internal medicine course	Discussed with Phase II committee and approval was obtained