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Faculty Curriculum Committee

The Faculty Curriculum Committee (FCC) provides overall supervision and coordination of the MB ChB curriculum and reports to Faculty Board.

The FCC also receives and considers reports from the Medical Education Committees and  the ELM Year 2/3, Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington Medical Education Groups, Year Coordinators, Task groups (including the Clinical Skills, Evidence Based Medicine, Hauora Māori, Assessment, Evaluation, Staff Development, Rural Health and Information Technology task groups), student and community reference groups and ad hoc working groups.

Governance

The Governance of the MB ChB degree in relation to the curriculum has been reviewed (Download the MB ChB Governance diagram HERE in PDF format).

The various sub-committees of FCC have been renamed to clarify the links between the operational and academic components of the curriculum development groups.

The FCC Sub-Committees are:

Curriculum Sub-Committee DSM CSC DSM
Curriculum Sub-Committee UOC CSC UOC
Curriculum Sub-Committee UOW              CSC UOW
Curriculum Sub-Committee ELM CSC ELM
Curriculum Sub-Committee RMIP             CSC RMIP
Curriculum Sub-Committee Inter-campus 4/5 CSC Inter-campus 4/5
Curriculum Sub-Committee Inter-campus TI CSC Inter-campus TI
 
Faculty Education Research & Quality Improvement FERQI
Faculty Assessment Sub-Committee FASC
Clinical Skills
eLearning & ICT eLICT
Hauora Mãori

Terms of Reference – Download the FCC Terms of Reference in (PDF format)

Next Meeting: Friday 24 May 2013
Time: 09.30am – 2.00 pm
Venue: By video link

Download the DRAFT minutes of the last meeting held: 19 April 2013 (Word Doc)

Meeting Dates 2013:

Date Venue Time
15 Feb Dunedin – Face to Face Sayers Bd Rm 10.30am – 3pm
22 Mar Video conference 10.00am – 2.30pm
19 Apr Wellington – Face to Face  D08 09.00am – 2pm
24 May Video conference
 09.30am – 2pm
19 July Dunedin– Face to Face Sayers Bd Rm 10.30am – 3pm
16 Aug Video conference
 09.30am – 2pm
27 Sept Christchurch – Face to Face time TBA
8 Nov Video conference 09.30am – 2pm
6 Dec Dunedin – Face to Face Sayers Bd Rm 10.30am – 3pm

Current Major Curriculum Projects:

Clinical Skills in the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum: An Overview Map  (Nov. 2012) NEW

The Faculty is working toward ensuring that clinical skills learning is consistent and coordinated for all students.

Members of the Clinical Skills Subcommittee have developed this “clinical skills map” and included not only the specific skills but also our expectations of what level of learning the  students should achieve at each stage of training (by the end of year 3, year 5 and year 6).

The next step is for each clinical skill director to ask module convenors, for each skill, whether each skill is:
a. Assessed in their module
b. Taught to all
c. All students on this module will have the opportunity to learn this.
d. Learning this skill might occur for some students but cannot be guaranteed for all (opportunistic)
e. Not covered in this module
f. Free text comments from module convenors about clinical skills taught that aren’t in the list, skills that may be learnt but to a different level than specified

Following this, the current teaching and learning will be compared with the desired

Prof Tim Wilkinson
Chair, Clinical Skills Subcommittee


A Masterplan for the Otago Medical Course of the Future

A “Masterplan for the Otago Medical Course of the Future” has now been finalised by FCC and endorsed by the Faculty Executive. The Masterplan aims to set the vision and direction for the medical course.  It is aimed to guide those involved in designing, improving and delivering the course and should be referred to when considering changes.

We do not expect all aspects within this vision to be implemented immediately but, as with other Masterplans, changes that are made to the course should be consistent with the general direction of this vision and should not hinder its realisation.  Proposed innovations therefore are more likely to be approved by the Faculty Curriculum Committee, if they are in the direction of the Masterplan.

The Faculty Curriculum Committee therefore welcomes ideas and innovations that show ways in which it can be implemented.  The Faculty Curriculum Committee also welcomes ideas for ways in which the Masterplan can be improved.

Yours sincerely

Prof Tim Wilkinson
Chair, FCC

  • To read the full Masterplan in PDF format – CLICK HERE

 

Previous Minutes of FCC:  (Staff and Students only)

2013 FCC Minutes:

 

2012 FCC Minutes:

2011 FCC Minutes:

 

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