Technical infrastructure for curriculum mapping in medical education: a narrative review

• Autorzy: Kononowicz Andrzej A. , Balcerzak Łukasz , Kocurek Anna , Stalmach-Przygoda Agata , Ciureanu Ioan-Adrian , Hege Inga , Komenda Martin , Majerník Jaroslav

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DOI

10.1515/bams-2020-0026

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

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Curriculum mapping is the process of designing a multidimensional model of an educational programme for a complete, more transparent and better-integrated learning experience. Many universities worldwide are building or expanding their technical infrastructure to manage their curricula. Our aim was to deliver a synopsis of current practices and describe the focus of research interest in implementing curriculum mapping tools for medical education. As part of the Building Curriculum Infrastructure in Medical Education (BCIME) project, we conducted a state-of-the-art narrative review of the literature. A systematised search of the PubMed/MEDLINE database for the years 2013-2019 resulted in 352 abstracts, from which 23 full-text papers were included in the final review. From these, we extracted guidance on 12 key characteristics of curriculum mapping tools. The collected experiences formed four thematic categories: visualisations, text descriptions and analysis, the outcome-based approach and adaptability in curriculum mapping. As result of the review, we summarised topics regarding ways of: implementating new competency-based catalogues (like NKLM) in curriculum mapping software (e. g., using dynamic checklists), methods of streamlining the authoring process (e. g., by automatic detection and alignment of action verbs in learning objectives descriptions) and graphical forms of presenting curriculum data (e. g., network visualisations using automatic clustering of related parts of a curriculum based on similarities between textual descriptions). We expect further developments in text-mining methods and visual/learning analytics in curriculum mapping. The collected data informed the design of a new curriculum management system called EduPortfolio, which is currently being implemented by the BCIME project.

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curriculum management; curriculum mapping; outcome-based education; state-of-art review

• Wydawca: Uniwersytet Jagielloński - Collegium Medicum ; Index Copernicus Sp. z o.o.
• Czasopismo: Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems
• Rocznik: 2020
• Tom: Vol. 16, no. 2
• Strony: art. no. 20200026
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 46 poz., rys.

Twórcy

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Kononowicz Andrzej A.

• Department of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Łazarza Str. 16, 31-530, Kraków, Poland, Tel/fax. [phone]

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Balcerzak Łukasz

• Department of Medical Education, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland

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Kocurek Anna

• Department of Medical Education, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland

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Stalmach-Przygoda Agata

• Department of Medical Education, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland

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Ciureanu Ioan-Adrian

• Department of Informatics and Biostatistics, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Iasi, Romania

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Hege Inga

• Medical Education Sciences, Medical School, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

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Komenda Martin

• Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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Majerník Jaroslav

• Department of Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Košice, Slovakia

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