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Hot Topics in Education

Hot Topics in Education. Innovative Curricula: Impact on Testing Schedules Rob Scott D.C., Ph.D. Dean, Life College of Chiropractic Chair, ACC/CAOs. Educational Challenges:

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Hot Topics in Education

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  1. Hot Topics in Education Innovative Curricula: Impact on Testing Schedules Rob Scott D.C., Ph.D. Dean, Life College of Chiropractic Chair, ACC/CAOs

  2. Educational Challenges: • Health care education is under significant pressures to improve quality – erosion of clinical environment; changes in organization of health care; change’s in societies expectations of health care. • Financial constraints • Need to incorporate new emergent domains of knowledge to produce more competent clinician (or broadened scope). • How?

  3. Opportunities: • Develop education that produces chiropractors who are patient-centered, emphasize evidence-based practice, utilize quality improvements approaches and informatics. • Pedagogy – case-based, problem-based, technology-based, clinically integrative approaches etc. to instruction.

  4. Medical education’s attempt at reform of these issues have consisted of curricular compression of 1st and 2nd year content. • “Few medical schools have attempted fundamental changes in their clinical curricula”. Teaching Clinical Skills. Washington D.C.: Association of American Medical Colleges 2004.

  5. CAO’s have discussed issues related to integrative curricula that incorporates both basic science and clinical education in parallel alignment beginning in first year. • Creates opportunities to incorporate different pedagogies throughout the learning experience of the student. • Would require “decompressing” the basic science curriculum (does not mean eliminating).

  6. Impact of Testing Schedules: • Acknowledgement of the importance of regulating authorities. • Board Format (Part 1 and 2) dictate timing of instruction content examined on the board. • Prescriptive nature of State Boards focusing on hours of specific course content as opposed to outcome or competency. Relationship between hours of study and competency?

  7. Strategies to Allow Innovation: • Challenges are deeply entrenched in the tradition and culture of our institutions and organizations that compose the chiropractic education system. • Institutions, associations, specialty boards, accrediting bodies, and licensing authorities will have to reach agreement on approach needed to allow for educational reform.

  8. Specifically: • NBCE & FCLB begin discussion with schools regarding impact of curricular reform on exam sequencing and timing. • Issues: • Consider impact of refocusing licensure/boards from content to competency. • Impact on exam validity, reliability and ensuring public safety.

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