Committee Charge:

The charge of the Curriculum Committee is to undertake curricular revision and program evaluation activities to ensure that the quality of the MD program at the MCOM is maintained and enhanced, and that medical students achieve all medical education program objectives. The committee will oversee the medical education program as a whole and has responsibility for the overall design, management, integration, evaluation, and enhancement of a coherent and coordinated medical curriculum. Accordingly, the committee will develop, review, assess, and make changes to the content, curricular structure, learning environment, and educational goals of the MD program and will evaluate the courses, curriculum, and program outcomes as a whole. The committee will ensure that the medical curriculum uses the formally adopted medical education program objectives to guide the selection of curriculum content, and to review and revise the curriculum. It will update the faculty regularly on changes and program outcomes. It will also oversee the development of standards for the evaluation and improvement of teaching quality. The committee will determine which clinical experiences and settings are required and appropriate. It will monitor and ensure that students participate in these requirements. In addition, it will ensure that each required course and clerkship link the learning objectives of that course or clerkship to the medical education program objectives.  

The voting members of the committee will be composed of seven members from basic science departments, seven members from clinical departments, two members from the USF-Lehigh Valley campus, two members of library services, the director for the SPT&RS (or designee), and a representative from the MCOM Student Council. Each faculty member of the committee will serve for a term of three years. The three-year terms will be staggered such that one-third of the members will be replaced each year. Each term will begin July 1.  

The senior administrative officers responsible for educational affairs (vice dean for educational affairs, associate dean for undergraduate medical education, director for curriculum management), assistant dean for pre-clerkship curriculum, assistant dean for clinical curriculum, chair for committee of clerkship directors, one chair from a clinical department, one chair from a basic science department, and the presidents of the first, second, third, and fourth year medical student classes or their designees will be non- voting, ex-officio members of this committee.  

The Curriculum Committee will have two subcommittees: the Content Review Subcommittee, and the Course Review Subcommittee.  

The Content Review Subcommittee’s charge is to review, assess, and recommend changes to the Curriculum Committee for integrated disciplines and curricular content areas to improve content delivery and reception for all stakeholders. In doing so, the subcommittee reviews and acknowledges all perceived strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats stated by the integration directors, faculty, and national curricular objectives. The focus is to objectively gather the data and identify if there are areas of improvement by review of curricular gaps and redundancies. Integrated disciplines and curricular content areas are reviewed vertically and horizontally. Finally, the subcommittee supports the faculty and integration directors to maintain and improve the curriculum and to provide the best educational experience for students to excel. This committee has a process and form that facilitates the reviews. The reviews are completed using a rotational schedule. This subcommittee is comprised of four voting members: including the chair of the integration directors, one member of library services, and one voting student member of the Curriculum Committee.

The Content Review Subcommittee ordinarily meets monthly. The Course Review Subcommittee’s charge is to review, assess, and recommend changes to the Curriculum Committee for individual courses to improve the course for all stakeholders. In doing so, the Course Review Subcommittee reviews and acknowledges all perceived strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats stated by students and faculty. The focus is to objectively gather the data and identify if there is validity to these perceptions. The Course Review Subcommittee reviews the content, design, and teaching methodology of the course as it integrates within the curriculum, both vertically and horizontally. This committee has a process and form that facilitates the reviews. The reviews are completed using a rotational schedule. Finally, the subcommittee supports the faculty and course directors to maintain and improve the curriculum to provide the best educational experience for the students to excel. This subcommittee is comprised of 16 voting faculty members and all non-voting student members of the Curriculum Committee.  

The Curriculum Committee will elect a chairperson for the committee and each subcommittee every two years and the terms will begin July 1. The committee can create subcommittees or taskforces as necessary to do the work of the committee.

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