Training the Trainer Outcomes-Based Education

1. Training the Trainer Outcomes-Based Education By Dr Malik Zaben

2. Do we need an outcome-based approach?

3. What is outcome-based education? • A performance-based approach at the cutting edge of curriculum development and offers powerful way of changing and managing medical education • It requires: • Statement of learning outcomes • Decisions about the curriculum

4. Benefits of OBE • Highlights the competencies to be achieved • Is necessary given the rapid advances in health sciences • Ensures consideration is given to important topics that otherwise may be neglected • Emphasizes accountability and transparency • Points students in the right direction • Provides the basis for allocation of resources

5. Benefits of OBE • Ensures the assessment is more valid • Provides continuity • Flags up problems in the curriculum • Help teacher select the topics • Enables curricula to be compared

6. Specifying learning outcomes • It is the first step in implementing learning outcomes • The driving body (GMC in the UK) • Specific to the context of the country • Can be shared across geographical borders • A top-down and a bottom-up activity

7. Stakeholders • University staff • Hospital practitioners • General practitioners • Recent graduates • Students • All health care professionals (nurse/ health allied) • Employers • Patients and the public

8. Approaches • A clinical incidence survey • Studies of error in practice • Task analysis • Study of existing curricula • Interviews with recent graduates

9. Communicating learning outcomes

10. The CANMEDS Physician Competency Framework

11. Implementing and outcome-based approach

12. OBE implementation inventory