Advances in Medical Education and Practice (Nov 2019)
How To Get Your Clinical Teaching Team Ready For Curriculum Change: A Practical Guide
Abstract
Lindsay Bank,1,2 Mariëlle Jippes,3 Albert JJA Scherpbier,4 Corry den Rooyen,5 Fedde Scheele1,2,6 1Department of Healthcare Education, OLVG Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 2Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Athena Institute for Transdisciplinary Research, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 3Department of Plastic Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 4Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, School of Health Professions Education, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands; 5Movation BV, Maarssen, the Netherlands; 6School of Medical Sciences, Institute for Education and Training, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsCorrespondence: Lindsay BankDepartment of Education, OLVG Hospital, Jan Tooropstraat 164, Amsterdam 1061 AE, the NetherlandsTel +31205108292Email [email protected]: Our health care system is constantly adapting to change at an increasingly rapid pace. Unavoidably, this also applies to the field of medical education. As a result, clinical teaching teams face the challenging task of successfully implementing the proposed changes in daily practice. It goes without saying that implementing change takes time and that you need to be patient. However, a successful change process needs more than that. Change models or strategies could offer a helping hand. The questionnaire Specialty training’s Organizational Readiness for curriculum Change (STORC) is a tool aiming to do just that. With a focus on readiness for change, this questionnaire tries to support implementation efforts in PGME. Additionally, since change is a team effort, it focusses on clinical teaching teams particularly. In this paper, we offer a practical guide for clinical teaching teams on how to deal with any concerns or hurdles detected in any of the core elements of readiness for change, in order to smoothen and support the educational change processes these teams are confronted with.Keywords: change readiness, postgraduate medical education, questionnaire, clinical teaching team, curriculum change, educational change
