The Sheffield approach to developing a curriculum map

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The Sheffield approach to developing a curriculum
map

• Dr. Patsy Stark
• Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
• Mr. Ash Self
• E-learning Developer

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Educational perspectives

• New curriculum rolling out since Sept 2003
• Integrated, system based, orientated to 92 core
  clinical problems, delivered using a hybrid
  approach
• Original map used to illustrate the structure of
  the new curriculum

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Educational perspectives

• Identification of the need for a more detailed
  curriculum map
• To help students
• To help teachers
• To help course planners
• Impending external review
• Transparency

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Developing the map

• Minerva
• University of Sheffields Medical School's
  Managed Learning Environment

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Developing the map

• Core problems listed in lecture outlines
• e.g. Ischaemia and Infarction relates to
• 2. Bleeding 6. Fever 13. Trauma/injuries
  16. Loss of consciousness/coma 45. Cardiac
  arrest/sudden death 46. Chest pain etc

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Developing the map

• End user context / perspective
• Student
• Teaching staff
• Curriculum planner
• Search tools
• Bespoke
• Google Mini

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Technical Platform

• ZOPE
• Open-source
• Flexible
• Software development educationally led
• Other technologies
• MySQL
• PHP
• PERL
• Python

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Staffing

• Two full time developers
• work closely with academic staff to ensure
  that the medical schools teaching, learning,
  evaluation and assessment strategies are
  successfully translated into technical
  specifications for web development, via an
  iterative process of planning, acting, observing
  and reflecting.

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Contact

• Dr. Patsy Stark
• Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
• p.stark_at_sheffield.ac.uk
• Mr. Ash Self
• E-learning Developer
• a.self_at_sheffield.ac.uk