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Implementation of Outcome-Based Medical Education Theory into the Pre-existing Curriculum

Young Sun Hong, Jae Jin Han1, Claire Junga Kim1, Hee Jung Choi, Joo Chun Yoon2, Hye-Kyung Jung, Han Su Kim3
The Ewha Medical Journal 2017;40(1):35-40. Published online: January 31, 2017

Department of Internal Medicine, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

1Department of Medical Education, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

2Department of Microbiology, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

3Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Corresponding author: Jae Jin Han. Department of Medical Education, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, 1071 Ahnyangcheon-ro, Yangcheon-gu, Seoul 07985, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2650-5629, Fax: 82-2-2650-5152, jjhan@ewha.ac.kr
• Received: September 27, 2016   • Accepted: January 5, 2017

Copyright © 2017. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

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  • Objectives
    This paper aims to describe an outcome-based curriculum development process at a medical school that has difficulty in advancement from the higher stage outcomes to the individual lesson outcomes, and to propose a way to implement it practically.
  • Methods
    We reviewed the objectives, strategies and previous products of the school's taskforce activities and suggested the principle of bidirectional approaches of outcome based curriculum development.
  • Results
    The developing strategy identified such as firstly, the evaluation of present curriculum and then, the review of the outcomes developed previously with considering the nation-wide environmental change in medical education. Then, we selected one example course which was focused the resources of the school to, and finally the product of the example course was propagated to the other courses with central monitoring.
  • Conclusion
    Bidirectional model of ‘Top-down’ plus ‘Bottom-up’ approaches could be an efficient way to develop the outcome-based curriculum in a medical school, which has difficulties to advance the developing process due to various reasons including limited resources.
  • Keywords: Education; Medical; Undergraduate; Curriculum development; Outcome-based
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Fig. 1

Whole curriculum of Ewha Womans Medical School.

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Fig. 2

Graduation outcomes of Ewha Womans Medical School.

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Fig. 3

Development process of outcome-based curriculum of Ewha Womans Medical School.

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Fig. 4

Developing lesson outcomes from course review. KAMC, Korea Association of Medical Colleges; KMLE, Korean Medical Licensing Examination.

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Table 1

Overhaul of objectives and outcomes of Ewha Womans Medical School

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Table 2

Survey results from M1 integrated course faculties about present curriculum

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Table 3

Planning of clinical presentation introduced to the ‘infection’ course

TBL, Team Based Learning; CBL, Case Based Learning; CBT, Computer Based Learning.

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      Fig. 1 Whole curriculum of Ewha Womans Medical School.
      Fig. 2 Graduation outcomes of Ewha Womans Medical School.
      Fig. 3 Development process of outcome-based curriculum of Ewha Womans Medical School.
      Fig. 4 Developing lesson outcomes from course review. KAMC, Korea Association of Medical Colleges; KMLE, Korean Medical Licensing Examination.

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      Implementation of Outcome-Based Medical Education Theory into the Pre-existing Curriculum

      Overhaul of objectives and outcomes of Ewha Womans Medical School

      Survey results from M1 integrated course faculties about present curriculum

      Planning of clinical presentation introduced to the ‘infection’ course

      TBL, Team Based Learning; CBL, Case Based Learning; CBT, Computer Based Learning.
      Table 1 Overhaul of objectives and outcomes of Ewha Womans Medical School

      Table 2 Survey results from M1 integrated course faculties about present curriculum

      Table 3 Planning of clinical presentation introduced to the ‘infection’ course

      TBL, Team Based Learning; CBL, Case Based Learning; CBT, Computer Based Learning.

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