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SUMMARY:From the ground up\; designing and implementing a medical undergrad
 uate curriculum in mid-flight
DESCRIPTION:Register on Eventbrite\nIn 2014\, the University of Bristol con
 ducted a review of Biomedicine with three strands\; Research strategy\, Fa
 culty structure and Undergraduate Curriculum review. The last of these was
  initiated with a target for initiation of a revised MB\, ChB curriculum o
 f September 2017. By many metrics\, Bristol had a successful medical degre
 e programme\; its graduates were successful in postgraduate medical examin
 ations and in specialty recruitment rounds. Therefore\, there was temptati
 on not to “fix what ain’t broke\,” especially given the timeline tha
 t had been imposed on the project from the outset.\nHowever\, it was recog
 nised that medical knowledge was changing rapidly\, the role of a doctor w
 as evolving\, and population demographic changes were bringing about major
  challenges for the profession. Bristol Medical School had not undergone a
  comprehensive curriculum review for over 20 years and the curriculum had 
 become crowded by the need to assimilate new knowledge and understanding w
 ithout critically reviewing what might be removed to make way for these pr
 iorities. Therefore\, following a strengths\, relevance and issues review 
 of the extant MB ChB curriculum\, a decision was taken to conduct a wholes
 ale review of the content and teaching methods.\nI will present the method
 ology that we employed to attempt to create a curriculum that was fit for 
 educating doctors that would practise medicine in the 21st Century in a ra
 pidly evolving health and social care environment and with cognizance of t
 he impacts of medical and technological advances on patient care now and i
 n the future. I will describe the journey that was undertaken to create an
  integrated medical curriculum that blends learning about biomedical scien
 ce\, clinical competency and decision making and medical humanities delive
 red through small-group\, student-centred learning\, the challenges of int
 roducing a revised curriculum that was still in development alongside deli
 very of an existing programme\, and how we conquered the inevitable scepti
 cism that greeted the change. The process has been described as designing 
 and building an aircraft after it has taken flight (while being shot at fr
 om the ground).\nJohn Henderson is Professor of Paediatric Respiratory Med
 icine a Programme Director\, MB ChB Curriculum Development at Bristol Medi
 cal School.\nThis event is part of the Educational Development Unit’s P
 erspectives in Education lecture series. This event is designed for Imper
 ial College staff.
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/98134/from-the-ground-up-designing-an
 d-implementing-a-medical-undergraduate-curriculum-in-mid-flight/
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