About Medical Education
The Medical Education Unit was established to assist and guide the co-ordinated approach to curriculum and pedagogical development for the School of Medicine. We work to ensure high quality curriculum - teaching and learning and assessment across all School of Medicine degree programs. To fulfil these requirements it offers educational expertise and works in partnership with other academic, professional and clinical staff to:
- Initiate and advance curriculum development, innovation and inter-professional learning at undergraduate and postgraduate levels across the School of Medicine;
- Enact quality improvement and innovation through ongoing research and evaluation in medical and health professional education;
- Provide educational advice and assistance to committees supporting the degree programs in the Faculty of Health Science and School of Medicine;
- Maintain and develop relationships with other medical schools as appropriate;
- Support the scholarship of learning and teaching and educational research within the School;
- Facilitate liaison between the School of Medicine MBBS and Paramedic programs and medical educators at other levels of the continuum of health educational education.
Domains of operation in the MBBS
In addition, the MEU works in the MBBS to
- Maintain the integrity of the educational vision and philosophy for the MBBS across curriculum, themes, evaluation and assessment.
- Document and prepare resources and activities that facilitate others' understanding of their role, and related skills in the MBBS.
- Support the ongoing development and accreditation of the MBBS program.
There are five domains over which the MEU will operate in the MBBS curriculum and the School of Medicine more broadly:
- Advocacy
The MEU articulates the goals of the MBBS course, defends and embeds sound educational principles in the curriculum and communicate experiences and successes of the MBBS in public and scholarly contexts.
- Consistency
The MEU maintains and defends the coherence and educational integrity of the MBBS curriculum, through curriculum design and review focusing that focuses on the alignment of goals, strategies and outcomes and horizontal and vertical integration.
- Validity
The MEU actively seeks to establish an evidence base through research to understand, validate and monitor the MBBS curriculum. Evidence will be used to support improvements and rational decision making.
- Quality
The MEU initiates and advances curriculum development and support the quality of the MBBS curriculum, and other School curricula, through development of QA processes, staff development and other activities that lead to continuous improvement.
- Sustainability
Curriculum practices and learning activities offered within the MBBS and School of Medicine must be innovative, flexible and sustainable to respond to the changing higher education and vocational environment within budget and resource constraints.
