Accepted Type
Dedicated Poster
Code
LP6 - 03
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
yes
Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Poster
Sub Type
Education Research
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Student
Affiliation
Title
Navigating physician education: Curriculum mapping gives new directions to continuing professional development courses
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Background/Purpose
Family physicians must maintain competence over a broad range of topics to ensure quality care for their diverse populations. Continuing professional development (CPD) courses provide one avenue for family physicians to stay up-to-date in their knowledge and skills. Curriculum mapping is a useful way to analyze the course offerings and determine to what extent the objectives align with the vast array of competencies required of family physicians. The map can be used by planning committees as part of their needs assessment process.
Methods
Using Microsoft Excel, we compiled a total of 547 individual presentations from the 36 different CPD courses that took place between 2017-2019. We mapped these courses to a list of competencies for family physicians developed by consensus of stakeholders. We assigned a single point to each time a competency was addressed in a presentation's learning objectives. Analysis of these results was done to inform future planning.
Results
Among the 547 presentations reviewed, competencies met most often were within the broad and overlapping categories of "Care of the Adults" (85.9%) and "Family Medicine Expert" (90.4%). Competencies met the least often were mapped to the categories of "End-of-life-care" (0.9%) and "Maternity and Newborn care"(2.4%). Within the nonmedical expert CanMEDs categories Health Advocate (4.9%) and Professional (5.7%) were lowest.
Conclusion
Curriculum mapping is a useful tool to identify gaps in competencies. This can be used as a guideline when designing learning objectives for future CPD courses. The results can also facilitate reflection on why some competencies are over or under-emphasized.
Keyword 1
Continuing professional development
Keyword 2
Curriculum mapping
Keyword 3
Family physician competencies
Level of Training
CPD (faculty development, CME)
Abstract Themes
Continuing Medical Education
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Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Authors
Presenter
Jessie Thuswaldner
Term 1
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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