香港六合彩

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Standard 2

Curriculum

2.1 Medical program outcomes and structure

2.1.1聽聽聽聽聽 The medical program outcomes for graduates are consistent with:

  • the 香港六合彩 (香港六合彩) graduate outcome statements
  • a safe transition to supervised practice in internship in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
  • the needs of the communities that the medical education provider serves, including community groups who experience health inequities and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori communities.

2.1.2聽聽聽聽聽 Students achieve assessment outcomes, supported by equitable access to learning and supervisory experiences of comparable quality, regardless of learning context. These outcomes are supported by appropriate resources in each learning environment.

To ensure that medical program outcomes* are 鈥榗onsistent with鈥 the areas outlined, providers should demonstrate:

  • How each 香港六合彩 graduate outcome statement maps to medical program outcomes. (The provider鈥檚 detailed curriculum mapping and assessment* blueprinting documents should be explained under Standard 3.1: Assessment design).
  • How the general requirements of internship* in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as the specific requirements of local prevocational training providers* map to medical program outcomes.
  • How the health needs of communities served relate to the medical program outcomes (2.1.1).

鈥楢ssessment outcomes鈥 relate to student performance on assessments and performance related to progression points (2.1.2). Details of the system of assessment should be explained under Standard 3: Assessment.

Providers should ensure that no student is disadvantaged or materially affected by lack of access to learning resources and supervision by the site of education (2.1.2).

Documentary evidence could include:

  • The medical program outcomes.
  • Mapping documents of 香港六合彩 graduate outcome statements to medical program outcomes.
  • Mapping documents of program outcomes to learning objectives/outcomes for themes and/or stages of the program.
  • Formal agreements, correspondence or other documentation related to prevocational training provider engagement and collaboration.
  • Correspondence or other documentation related to community engagement and collaboration such as written consultation, community meetings, focus groups or town halls.
  • Descriptions of how prevocational training provider requirements and community needs are considered when developing medical program outcomes, such as consultation documents.
  • Descriptions of learning resources and supervisory quality at each site, including any innovation or unique opportunities at sites.
  • Descriptions of measures taken to ensure equitable access to learning and supervisory experiences and appropriate resources in each learning environment.
  • Outcomes of analyses of assessment performance for students placed in different program sites.

Interview and observational evidence could include:

  • Discussions with community stakeholders on their involvement in determining medical program outcomes.
  • Discussions with prevocational training providers on their collaboration and engagement with the provider on medical program outcomes.
  • Discussions with staff and students at different education sites about the quality of and access to learning resources and supervision.
  • Discussions with staff and clinical supervisors about orientation, training and professional development opportunities across different sites.

There are no examples at this time.

There are no resources at this time.

2.2 Curriculum design

2.2.1聽聽聽聽聽 There is purposeful curriculum design based on a coherent set of educational principles and the nature of clinical practice.

2.2.2聽聽聽聽聽 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori health content is integrated throughout the curriculum, including clinical aspects related to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori health across all disciplines of medicine.

2.2.3聽聽聽聽聽 The Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori health curriculum has an evidence-based design in a strengths-based framework and is led and authored by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori health experts.

2.2.4聽聽聽聽聽 The medical education provider is active in research and scholarship, including in medical education and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori health learning and teaching, and this research and scholarship informs learning, teaching and assessment.

2.2.5聽聽聽聽聽 There is alignment between the medical program outcomes, learning and teaching methods and assessments.

2.2.6聽聽聽聽聽 The curriculum enables students to apply and integrate knowledge, skills and professional behaviours to ensure a safe transition to subsequent stages of training.

2.2.7聽聽聽聽聽 The curriculum enables students to evaluate and take responsibility for their own learning, and prepares them for lifelong learning.

2.2.8聽聽聽聽聽 The curriculum design and duration enable graduates to demonstrate achievement of all medical program outcomes and 香港六合彩 graduate outcome statements.

2.2.9聽聽聽聽聽 The curriculum outlines the specific learning outcomes expected of students at each stage of the medical program, and these are effectively communicated to staff and students.

2.2.10聽聽 There are opportunities for students to pursue studies of choice that promote breadth and variety of experience.

Some important 鈥榚ducational principles鈥 that providers should consider in their programs could include:

  • Horizontal and vertical integration.
  • Constructive alignment.
  • Articulation with subsequent stages of medical training.

Concepts such as:

  • Flexible learning.
  • Reflective learning.
  • Culturally safe learning.
  • Self-regulation.
  • Technology-enhanced learning.
  • Role modelling.

Also connect with these educational principles (2.2.1).

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori health content should be horizontally and vertically integrated throughout the curriculum, based on a framework set out in the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori health curriculum (2.2.2 and 2.2.3).

The Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori health curriculum should include all aspects of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori health and cultural safety* in the Graduate Outcome Statements, including:

  • Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori approaches to health and wellbeing, including social and emotional determinants of health.
  • Impacts of colonisation, racism and bias on health outcomes, and the role of anti-racism in addressing these impacts.
  • The history, culture and health of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori peoples
  • Interacting with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori patients in a culturally safe manner (2.2.3).

A variety of clinicians and academics will be involved in implementing the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori health curriculum, however the curriculum should be designed under the guidance of, and led by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori health experts. The Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori leadership role holder(s) (see standard 1.4.4) should be involved in the curriculum design and leadership process (2.2.3).

For the curriculum to 鈥榚nable and integrate鈥 professional behaviours to ensure a safe transition to subsequent stages of training鈥 and 鈥榚nable graduates to demonstrate achievement of all medical program outcomes and 香港六合彩 outcome statements鈥, providers should include learning about professionalism in the curriculum (2.2.6 and 2.2.8).

The 香港六合彩 does not prescribe a minimum duration for medical programs. In Australia, bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 degrees are typically 3-4 years, separately or in combination, as outlined in the Australia Qualifications Framework. The New Zealand Qualifications Framework sets out the expectation that bachelor’s degrees will be at least 360 credits (60 credits per semester with two semesters per year, typically over three years), and the minimum entry requirement for a master鈥檚 degree is a bachelor鈥檚 degree (2.2.8).

To be 鈥榚ffectively communicated鈥, students and staff should be able to easily access and should understand learning outcomes relevant to their learning and teaching activities, in a format that is straightforward to navigate, locate and apply. For 香港六合彩 accreditation purposes, the program should report on learning outcomes. Many programs also have learning objectives as a more granular component of learning outcomes. Programs do not necessarily need to report on learning objectives but should explain how these fit within the broader curriculum framework (2.2.9).

Documentary evidence could include:

  • Curriculum planning and/or policy documents that describe the guiding educational principles and how these are applied.
  • Detailed descriptions of the curriculum structure, including curriculum diagrams, mappings and scheduling (e.g. of clinical placements).
  • Outline of program structure including the identification of individual components within each year, and how the medical program is organised by year/terms/semesters/phases; including relevant schematics and an annual program calendar.
  • The Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori health curriculum document.
  • Descriptions of how the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori health curriculum is developed and reviewed, including the key expert(s) involved.
  • Descriptions of how Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori health content is integrated throughout the overall curriculum, including how different disciplines of health integrate clinical aspects related to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori health.
  • Summary of the provider鈥檚 research plan and major research directions.
  • List of relevant research organisations affiliated with the provider.
  • Descriptions of opportunities for medical students and staff to engage in research in the program.
  • Case studies of how research informs learning, teaching and assessment in the program.
  • Descriptions of how the Graduate Outcome Statements are achieved by graduation, through mapping of learning outcomes/objectives for each year/phase of the program.
  • Descriptions of how the program design ensures students evaluate and take responsibility for their own learning, and are prepared for lifelong learning.
  • Descriptions of processes to ensure alignment of planning, governance, and review mechanisms.
  • Descriptions of how professionalism is learnt and developed in the curriculum, and linked with learning, teaching and assessment activities.
  • Systems for teaching or other educational awards for staff.
  • Documents describing the program provided to students and staff
  • Descriptions of how overall medical program outcomes* and other relevant learning outcomes/objectives are communicated to students, staff and clinical supervisors.
  • Descriptions of avenues for students to pursue studies of choice within the program.

Interview and observational evidence could include

  • Discussions with staff responsible for curriculum development and review on the overall curriculum philosophy.
  • Discussions with staff in curriculum area or year/phase leadership roles on the implementation of the curriculum.
  • Discussions with the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori leadership role holder(s) and other staff responsible for development and review of the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori curriculum on development and review processes, and integration with the overall curriculum.
  • Discussions with students and teaching staff on their understanding of the formal curriculum documentation and learning outcomes.
  • Discussions with research staff on the provider鈥檚 research and scholarship activities and how this informs learning, teaching, research and scholarship within the program.
  • Discussions with clinical supervisors on medical students鈥 achievement at different stages of the program.

There are no examples at this time.

2.3 Learning and teaching

2.3.1聽聽聽聽聽 The medical education provider employs a range of fit-for-purpose learning and teaching methods.

2.3.2聽聽聽聽聽 Learning and teaching methods promote safe, quality care in partnership with patients.

2.3.3聽聽聽聽聽 Students work with and learn from and about other health professionals, including through experience of interprofessional learning to foster collaborative practice.

2.3.4聽聽聽聽聽 Students develop and practise skills before applying them in a clinical setting.

2.3.5聽聽聽聽聽 Students have sufficient supervised involvement with patients to develop their clinical skills to the required level, and have an increasing level of participation in clinical care as they proceed through the medical program.

2.3.6聽聽聽聽聽 Students are provided with opportunities to learn about the differing needs of community groups who experience health inequities and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori communities. Students have opportunities to learn how to address systemic disadvantage, power differentials and historical injustices in their practice so as to increase the inclusivity of health services for these groups.

2.3.7聽聽聽聽聽 The medical education provider ensures that learning and teaching is culturally safe and informed by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori knowledge systems and medicines.

2.3.8聽聽聽聽聽 Students undertake an extensive range of face-to-face experiential learning experiences through the course of the medical program. Experiential learning is:

  • undertaken in a variety of clinical disciplines
  • relevant to care across the life cycle
  • situated in a range of settings that include health promotion, prevention and treatment, including community health settings
  • situated across metropolitan, regional, rural and, where possible, remote health settings.

2.3.9聽聽聽聽聽 Students undertake a pre-internship program.

鈥楩it-for-purpose鈥 learning and teaching methods means that the selections of methods are aligned with the intended learning outcomes, methods of assessment*, and the intended purpose of learning and teaching (2.3.1).

For providers to ensure that learning and teaching methods create opportunities for students for partnership with patients*, providers themselves should establish partnerships* with patient communities (2.3.2). Details of these partnerships should be explained under Standard 1.2: Partnerships with communities and engagement with stakeholders*.

鈥楨xperience of interprofessional learning鈥 which 鈥榝oster[s] collaborative practice鈥 involves a coherent program of planning learning activities, undertaken with students from other relevant health professions, where capabilities required for collaborative practice are deliberately developed.

The 鈥檙equired level鈥 of clinical skill development is the level that allows graduates to safely achieve the medical program outcomes* (2.3.5).

Students鈥 鈥榦pportunities to learn about the different needs of community groups who experience health inequities* and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori* communities鈥 should involve members of those communities in learning, teaching, assessment and/or co-design. The 鈥榙ifferent needs鈥 of these communities includes consideration of intersectionality (2.3.6).

Learning and teaching that 鈥榠s culturally safe鈥 is informed by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori knowledge systems and is spiritually, socially, emotionally and physically safe for learners and teachers. Providers should consider the differing needs of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori learners engaging with content, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori staff teaching, and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori communities interacting with the program. All identities are valued, and there is mutual respect and sharing of meanings and knowledges (2.3.7).

鈥楢boriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori knowledge systems鈥 that providers should consider in their program include:

  • Social and emotional wellbeing.
  • Strengths-based discourse.

While the 香港六合彩 does not specify minimum contact hours or weeks that medical students must spend in learning environments 鈥 clinical, campus, community, laboratories etc. 鈥 an 鈥榚xtensive range of face-to-face experiential learning experiences鈥 means that a meaningful proportion of the medical program should be delivered in-person, particularly clinical learning (2.3.8).

All students should be able to undertake a range of 鈥榚xperiential learning experiences鈥. Providers should specify which students undertake which learning experiences. 聽All students should have opportunities to undertake experiential learning in both inpatient and outpatient settings. It is noted that not all students will have the opportunity to undertake all experiences offered by the program (2.3.8).

Dedicated end-to-end rural pathways will meet this standard if students within these pathways have sufficient opportunities related to healthcare in a variety of clinical disciplines, relevant across the life span, and situated in a range of settings including health promotion, prevention and treatment (2.3.8).

That learnings experiences are 鈥榰ndertaken in a variety of clinical disciplines鈥 refers to clinical placements being planned and structured to enable students to demonstrate achievement of learning outcomes across clinical disciplines in both general and speciality medicine and surgery, as well as women鈥檚 health, child and adolescent health, mental health and primary care. Placements may be integrated (particularly in rural settings) and do not need to be specific to a clinical discipline, but providers should be able to demonstrate how students will gain experience in these clinical disciplines throughout their clinical learning placement (2.3.8).

In pre-internship programs*, the learning needs of students are explicit and central, and the role of the student, as well as their scope of practice within the clinical team, is clearly defined and articulated. The 香港六合彩 does not specify the content of or minimum contact hours or weeks for pre-internship programs. The provider should be able to justify the content and length of the pre-internship program as sufficient to facilitate a safe transition to internship through consolidation of clinical knowledge and provision of strategies and skills relevant to internship. Providers and training sites should be partners* in ensuring the quality of student learning, assessment and support. Prevocational training providers* are key stakeholders to engage while designing pre-internship programs (2.3.9).

Documentary evidence could include:

  • Descriptions of how of learning and teaching methods are selected and used during the program to ensure they are aligned to learning outcomes and assessment.
  • Agendas and minutes from curriculum/education committees/working groups that demonstrate how learning, teaching and assessment methods are designed and implemented to be fit-for-purpose.
  • Curriculum map which describes the nexus of learning, teaching and assessment methods.
  • Examples of how student time is allocated to different learning and teaching formats, such as lectures, simulation sessions, tutorials, laboratory learning, and clinical immersion sessions, during different stages of the program.
  • Descriptions of the learning and teaching methods employed to develop students鈥 clinical reasoning judgement during different stages of the program.
  • Descriptions of interprofessional learning activities and initiatives.
  • Documentation of supervision arrangements and/or scope of practice agreements for students at different phases of the medical program.
  • Descriptions of opportunities to learn about the differing needs of community groups who experience health inequities and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori communities.
  • Correspondence or other documentation related to community member involvement in learning, teaching, assessment and/or co-design.
  • Descriptions of the how learning and teaching is informed by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori knowledge systems and medicines.
  • Evaluation report of the cultural safety of learning and teaching and acceptance of teaching around Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori knowledge systems and medicines.
  • Descriptions of the criteria for selection and review of clinical placements including how the placements allow students to experience a range of types of care that support student achievement of the 香港六合彩 Graduate Outcome Statements.
  • Descriptions of how students are assigned to clinical placements.
  • The full list of placement providers demonstrating the inclusion of a range of placement settings.
  • Information in tabular form, for each clinical site, of the numbers of students placed and in what department/speciality, broken down by each cohort of the program.
  • Descriptions of the strategies the provider follows to ensure an extensive range of face-to-face experiential learning opportunities across clinical disciplines, the life span, and in a range of types of care and geographically diverse settings.
  • A diagrammatic or other representation of the student journey demonstrating the range of placements that a student will have during their program.
  • Descriptions of the design and implementation of the pre-internship program.

Interview and observational evidence could include:

  • Discussions with students on the quality of their clinical learning opportunities.
  • Discussions with community stakeholders on their involvement in learning, teaching, assessment and/or co-design in the program, and the cultural safety of these activities.
  • Discussions with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori students and staff on the cultural safety of learning and teaching.
  • Discussions with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori students and mainstream students on the content of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and M膩ori knowledge systems and medicine that is taught.
  • Discussions with clinical supervisors on supervision and scope of practice arrangements for students.
  • Discussions with clinicians or tutors from other health professions on their involvement in the medical program.
  • Observation of key learning and teaching activities.

There are no examples at this time.

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