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Official LCME site visit: Feb. 18-21, 2024

Overview of medical educational program objectives

Element 8.2 —Use of Medical Educational Program Objectives

What: The VCU School of Medicine Curriculum Council ensures that our medical education program has formal objectives for the overall program, known as institutional learning objectives (ILOs). Learning objectives for each course and clerkship must link to the ILOs.

Why: The LCME defines learning objectives as statements of the specific, observable and measurable expected outcomes of each specific component of a medical education program. Learning objectives define the content of the course, module, clerkship or rotation and assessment methodology.

Call to action:

Familiarize yourself with the School of Medicine’s policy on the institutional learning objectives review and revision process. Faculty must ensure that course-level and clerkship-level learning objectives are linked to the ILOs.

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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.

Source: LCME Functions and Structure of a Medical School 2023-24