Enriching Educators and Empowering Learners: The Co-Creation Approach to Curriculum Development

Saturday, May 4, 2024

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET

Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre: 705

CE: Live CME: 1.5

Leader(s)

Andrea Triplett, MD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Wake Forest School of Medicine of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Slides

Co-Leader(s)

Jennifer Jackson, MD

Professor of Pediatrics; Assistant Dean for Curricular Innovation
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, United States
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Patrick Touhy, MD (he/him/his)

Fellow
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, North Carolina, United States
Emily Allen, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Hasbro Children's Hospital / Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
My-Linh Ngo, MD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Christine Thang, MD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Clinical Professor
Pediatrics
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States

Disclosure(s):

Andrea Triplett, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Jennifer M. Jackson, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Patrick Touhy, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Emily B. Allen, MD, MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

My-Linh Ngo, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Christine K. Thang, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Workshop

Description: This workshop is intended for medical educators as well as medical trainees interested in curricular development. The workshop will begin with a brief overview of the key principles of curricular co-creation and best practices for using co-creation to improve learner engagement and educational outcomes, as supported by the medical education literature. Participants will then review a co-creation planning worksheet which provides a framework to apply co-creation principles in various educational contexts. They will then assemble into small groups based on the participants’ targeted learners (students, residents, or faculty), using the worksheet provided to start planning their own co-creation projects as well as collaborating with others in their group. Workshop facilitators will circulate among the small groups to provide guidance and feedback. We will reconvene as a large group to share potential project ideas and address questions posed by the small groups. As a large group, we will discuss potential pitfalls in using a co-creation approach. Returning back to their small groups, participants will consider potential pitfalls in their own projects and brainstorm strategies to address or mitigate them. Afterward, we will gather as a large group to reflect on these pitfalls and mitigation strategies. Workshop leaders will utilize guided participation as the framework for this workshop to model for participants how to implement curricular co-creation at their own institutions. The session will close with a final question and answer session.

Learning Objectives:

Define co-creation and its key principles, including the roles of learners, educators, and other stakeholders in shaping curricula and learning experiences.
Apply evidence-based approaches to curricular co-creation in medical education.
Develop an action plan for specific co-creation opportunities in your educational institution, as well as address potential pitfalls