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Oversight of student learning objectives
Elements 6.1 and 8.2 – Institutional Learning Objectives
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What: Session-level and course-level objectives are driven by the institutional learning objectives.
Faculty leading learning experiences (e.g., courses, clerkships) are responsible for developing objectives, and ensuring that students and faculty are aware of both the institutional learning and course/clerkship level objectives.
The Curriculum Council ensures that the medical education objectives guide the curriculum content.
Why: If you’re teaching medical students, whether in a classroom or in a clinic, your lessons must contain measurable objectives for learners.
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Call to action: Familiarize yourself with the School of Medicine’s policies on LCME Element 6.1
The faculty of a medical school define its medical education program objectives in outcome-based terms that allow the assessment of medical students’ progress in developing the competencies that the profession and the public expect of a physician. The medical school makes these medical education program objectives known to all medical students and faculty. In addition, the medical school ensures that the learning objectives for each required learning experience (e.g., course, clerkship) are made known to all medical students and those faculty, residents, and others with teaching and assessment responsibilities in those required experiences.
LCME Element 8.2
The faculty of a medical school, through the faculty committee responsible for the medical curriculum, ensure that the medical curriculum uses formally adopted medical education program objectives to guide the selection of curriculum content, and to review and revise the curriculum. The faculty leadership responsible for each required course and clerkship link the learning objectives of that course or clerkship to the medical education program objectives.