Medical Education – (M.Sc.)

Contents

Courses

Term 1

Scholarship of Medical Education (4ME000)

The aim of the course is for the participants to develop a reflective approach and an understanding for how the process of scholarship as a model can be a way to support one's own development. Participants will gain a better understanding of the scholarship of medical education.

Learning Processes (4ME001)

The course aims to improve the participants' orientation in the field of medical education and its pedagogy. Participants will develop their ability to analyse individuals' learning from the perspective of the learner, based on personal experience, theories of education, and based on research in medical and higher education.

Term 2

Integration of Theory and Practice (4ME002)

The course aims to depeen the participants' knowledge of how individuals process information, construct understanding and develop skills, attitudes and values when developing professional competence.

Design and Assessment of Learning (4ME003)

The course aim to develop the participants' understanding for how to design activities that facilitate meaningful learning. The course takes the teacher's/educator's perspective as a point of departure. Design for learning is a central theme and the course will touch upon course design as well as other activities in different contexts. Course participants should also develop the ability to analyse learning from a design perspective and continue to develop a scholarly approach to their own practie. The course builds on the knowledge and skills that participants have acquired during previous courses in the programme.

Term 3

Interprofessional Learning (4ME004)

The aim of the course is that participants develop their understanding of and ability to design courses and activities that facilitate interprofessional learning for students and/or members of different health care professions.

Leading Change and Learning (4ME005)

The aim of the course is to help the participants develop the skills and understanding that are required to create a learning organisation when leading change and development work and learning in their workplace. The course builds on preceding courses in the programme with the opportunity for participant creativity in the application of his or her educational skills in practice.

Term 4

Degree Project in Medical Education 1 (4ME006)

The aim of the degree project is for participants to develop the ability to independently implement a project with a systematic and scientific approach that clearly demonstrates scholarship in medical teaching and learning. The participants should - in accordance with the scholarship model (see supplement) - carry out, document and spread knowledge of a project that connects to their own practice and also one of the four possible main themes of the programme: academic leadership, educational development work, professional development or subject didactics within medicine or health care.

Term 5

Research in Medical Education (4ME008)

The aim of the course: The participants should develop their scientific approach and understand the implications of current research fields in medical education. By building on the first year studies the participants’ preparedness for Scholarship in medical teaching and learning should develop into a preparedness towards research in medical education.