Full Description
Written by highly respected educationalists Harden, Harden, and Lilley, Creating a Curriculum for Student Engagement: Key Ideas for Health Professions Education is a practical guide covering the essential considerations of curriculum making. In a unique approach, the authors provide a new mental model for planning and implementing a curriculum. Focusing on five stages of student engagement - interest, commitment, facilitation, future proofing and assessment -readers are offered practical ideas from creating authentic and inclusive curricula through to selecting and organizing content, applying educational strategies, implementing new technologies and embedding assessment for learning. Whether it's in medicine and healthcare professions or postgraduate and continuing education programs, empower yourself and your curriculum design, development, and implementation teams to foster an environment where future clinicians are successfully trained to meet the needs of the communities they aim to serve.
A new student engagement model prompts the reader to consider what makes a successful curriculum and how this can be delivered in practice
Helps refine curricula to produce clinicians with the appropriate knowledge, understanding and clinical skills for the future
Stresses the interconnected nature of the curriculum and the interdependence of its elements
Provides necessary theoretical understanding in an accessible way
Will help refocus teaching on what matters most and what has the biggest impact on students
Covers important topics including equity, diversity and inclusion, issues involved in curriculum collaborations, and quality assurance
