Development and implementation of an online platform for curriculum mapping in medical education

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

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DOI

10.1515/bams-2021-0143

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

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Objectives: Nowadays universities face ever-increasing demands on quality of education, which is crucial from perspective of future graduates. In face of the need of constant quality improvements of medical curricula, it is important to seek strategies for their efficient management. The general trend is to develop electronic support tools to streamline the curricular design, analysis and harmonization. Methods: Based on the requirements we have identified by the needs analysis among curriculum designers, teachers and managers at five universities involved in the Building Curriculum Infrastructure in Medical Education (BCIME) project, and evidence published in literature on curriculum development, we have developed methodological guidelines on curriculum innovations and a software-based tools that help manage, map and analyse curricula in the medical and healthcare study fields. Results: In this paper, we share our experiences with building and implementation of EDUportfolio, an online platform developed within our consortium and intended to facilitate harmonisation and optimisation of medical outcome-based curricula. Its functionalities and outputs were verified by pilot mapping of Anatomy curricula as taught at partner universities in five European countries. Conclusions: The visualisation and the analysis of described curriculum data using natural language processing techniques revealed both the hidden relations between curriculum building blocks and a set of overlaps and gaps in curricula. In addition, we demonstrate both the usability of the platform in the context of the involved academic environments and the capability to map and compare curricula across different institutions and different countries.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

curriculum; curriculum management; curriculum mapping; learning; medical education

• Wydawca: Uniwersytet Jagielloński - Collegium Medicum ; Index Copernicus Sp. z o.o.
• Czasopismo: Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: Vol. 18, no. 1
• Strony: 1--11
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 30 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Majerník Jaroslav

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

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1942-0497

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Kacmarikova Andrea

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

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0752-3958

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Komenda Martin

• Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0572-5767

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Kononowicz Andrzej A.

• Department of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2956-2093

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Kocurek Anna

• Department of Medical Education, Center for Innovative Medical Education, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7756-7668

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Stalmach-Przygoda Agata

• Department of Medical Education, Center for Innovative Medical Education, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5959-9244

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Balcerzak Łukasz

• Department of Medical Education, Center for Innovative Medical Education, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7543-0046

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Hege Inga

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

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4335-5162

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Ciureanu Adrian

• Medical Informatics and Biostatistics, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi, Iasi, Romania

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9689-8569

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Uwagi

Opublikowane przez De Gruyter. Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MEiN, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2022-2023).