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A Guide to Competencies, Educational Goals, and Learning Objectives for Teaching Human Embryology in an Undergraduate Medical Education Setting
Medical science educator (2018)
  • Manas Das, University of South Dakota
  • Kerin M. Claeson, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Donald J. Lowrie, University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center
  • David L. Bolender, Medical College of Wisconsin
  • John R. Fredieu, Kent State University
  • Geoffrey Guttmann, University of Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Marianne L. Conway, University of Mississippi Medical Center
  • Tamojit Ghosh
  • Anna C. Edmondson
  • R. John Cork, Louisiana State University
  • Padmanabhan Rengasamy, University of Texas at Austin
  • Lisa M. J. Lee, University of Colorado Boulder
  • James M. Williams, Rush University Medical Center
  • Kerby C. Oberg, Loma Linda University
Abstract
With the rapidly changing course of medical education and ever-increasing time restrictions on basic biomedical science instruction, most educators have one question in common—what is the most relevant information for the next generation of physicians? The Liaison Committee for Medical Education (LCME) and the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) support a list of learning objectives for medical students defined by faculty prior to any educational activities, regardless of pedagogy. The question remains—what ensures competency for medical students in a given subject area upon completion of the course? To accomplish the task to ensure competency in human clinical embryology, a 6-month interactive online collaboration was formed. The outcome is a set of competencies in human embryology that should be required of all medical students, with the goals and learning objectives required to achieve these competencies.
Keywords
  • Embryology,
  • Medical education,
  • Competency,
  • Goals,
  • Learning objectives
Publication Date
June 1, 2018
DOI
10.1007/s40670-018-0542-5
Citation Information
Manas Das, Kerin M. Claeson, Donald J. Lowrie, David L. Bolender, et al.. "A Guide to Competencies, Educational Goals, and Learning Objectives for Teaching Human Embryology in an Undergraduate Medical Education Setting" Medical science educator Vol. 28 Iss. 2 (2018) p. 417 - 428
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kerin_claeson/51/