Strategic Plan for Teaching, Learning
and Assessment Program
Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Center
Strategic Implementation
Mohammed Al-Naami, FRCSC, M Ed.
Program Director
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STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM AND PURPOSE
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Globally, health professional education has not kept in pace with
current challenges and changes of the 21st century health care
systems and needs
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Most of health education curricula are outdated and created in
isolation producing ill-equipped graduates
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Interdisciplinary health education is one of the recommended
strategies to improve health care systems as they are becoming
more complex, costly, and rely on care delivered by teams
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Our aim is to improve health sciences education programs and
their products through collaborative interdisciplinary coeducation
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DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT /INTERVENTION
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This program was launched in May 2010 to deal with the
development of health sciences education especially in teaching,
learning, and assessment
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A leadership group of health educators representing the health
colleges that educate more than 7000 students and have about
2000 faculty staff was involved in the development of the
strategic plan and structure of the proposed teaching, learning,
and assessment center
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This project was planned in collaboration with Partners Harvard
Medical International (PHMI) over the course of one year
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AGREEMENT
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METHOD
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Based on student surveys, SWOT analysis, internal and
external program accreditation reviews for some health
sciences colleges, and other evaluation initiatives for
graduate health education programs,
The need to improve health education became apparent in
all health sciences colleges (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy,
applied medical sciences, nursing, and emergency medical
services)
The leadership group was involved in 6 faculty
development exercises, 3 workshops were conducted in
Riyadh, and they attended a total of 3 courses in Boston at
the Harvard Macy Institute focusing on various aspects of
the project
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General Approach to Program Planning
Mission
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Market
Vision
•Needs
•Opportunities
•Customers
Strategy
Regulations
Business
Plan
General
Innovations
Models
Principles
Benchmarks
Programs
Governance
Infrastructure Program
Manpower
Plan
Stakeholders
Evaluate
Implement
Operate
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Vision and Mission
To create a leading center for excellent teaching, successful learning,
and effective assessment in the health sciences
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To set standards and create guidelines that promote excellent
teaching, successful learning, and effective assessment.
To implement interdisciplinary collaborative education among the
health science colleges
To provide faculty and students with resources on best
educational practices
To provide training and support for faculty in developing their
careers as health science educators including scholarly activities
related to health science education
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Values
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Professionalism and Communication
Student-centered and Safe Learning Environment
Critical Thinking and Self-directed Life-long Learning
Social Accountability and Consciousness
Teamwork and Equality
Patient-centered Care
Commitment to Islamic values
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Learning Goals:
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Goal 1: To provide a high-quality learner-centered/self-directed
learning experience that ensures best academic achievement,
successful scholarship, and readiness for employment
Goal 2: To emphasize learning that adapts all learning theories
each in its right context based on adult learning principles
Goal 3: To create a supportive learning environment where
learners interact actively with the curriculum, patients and
teachers in complex real-life problems
Goal 4: To build learners’ self-awareness of values, attitudes, and
beliefs that influence their learning achievement and actions to a
high caliber professional career.
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Teaching Goals
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Goal 5: To promote and support distinguished and innovative
educational excellence and scholarship among faculty.
Goal 6: To promote leadership and management qualities among
health care faculty to cope with the rapidly changing global
educational environment.
Goal 7: To develop faculty policies, career and incentives that
support the essential role of teaching in light of competing
priorities.
Goal 8: To promote interprofessional health education to
develop insights, shared knowledge and teamwork skills that
promote effective collaboration to deliver high quality care
efficiency.
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Assessment Goals
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Goal 9: To establish a system approach and “culture of
assessment”, in which evaluation and assessment in health
sciences education encompass the assessment of the program
and resources; students experience (process) and learning
outcomes; and staff and teaching.
Goal 10: To develop a comprehensive approach to assessment
that addresses all educational domains including knowledge,
skills, and attitudes/values.
Goal 11: To enhance all relevant assessment methods that are in
use for health sciences education, establish adequate
measurements criteria, and make use of assessment and
evaluation results for further improvement.
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Governance Structure
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Approach to Implementation
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Presenting the strategic plan to each health science college board
meeting for discussion, and where each health science college can
contribute to the program and the plan for its implementation
(Beginning of the academic year 1433-1434 , Fall 2012)
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 Cooperation of the health science college (HSC) with the program
 Involvement of various departments within each HSC and their
feedback
 Highlighting similar programs at the level of the HSC and KSU
 Involvement of relevant and interdependent departments at KSU
 Cooperation with national and international health profession
education universities and institutes
 Possibility of making it a unified center that serves all HSCs
 Research opportunities
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Approach to Implementation
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Intensive 1-2 days strategic workshop that involve the leadership,
T&L, and A&E Committees focusing on the phasing and timeline
for the major elements of the center/program (Beginning of the
academic year 1433-1434, Fall 2012)
These element may include:
Data gathering
Surveys
Programs
Guidelines
Training
Systems
Resources
Governance
Research
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Approach to Implementation
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Faculty Development Course, Riyadh, Fall 2012
The aim of this is to “Train-the-Trainer “ in a two-day program for
20-30 health sciences faculty
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 Learning theories and their application in a learner-centered
environment
 Teaching in multiple settings
 Assessment including test construction and feedback
 Program evaluation
 Conducting educational research
 Creating competency-based curricula, courses and assessments
 Designing faculty development courses
This program can be done in collaboration with PHMI and further
agreements can be made then
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Professional Development Programs at Harvard
• Program for Educators in the Health Professions
 January 13-23 and May 5-10, 2013
• A system Approach to Assessment in Health Professions Education
 March 10-15, 2013
• Program for Leading Innovations in Healthcare and Education
 June 9-14, 2013
These are highly specialized courses that may serve our program by
sending appropriate themes to consult for and improve their assigned
projects
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Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Center
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