Blueprinting and auditing a postgraduate medical education programme – Lessons from COVID-19
Introduction: Disruptions of the postgraduate (PG) teaching programmes by COVID-19 have encouraged a transition to virtual methods of content delivery. This provided an impetus to evaluate the coverage of key learning goals by a pre-existing PG didactic programme in an Obstetrics and Gynaecology Spe...
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| author | Rachel Jiayu Lee Jeannie Jing Yi Yap Abhiram Kanneganti Carly Yanlin Wu Grace Ming Fen Chan Citra Nurfarah Zaini Mattar Pearl Shuang Ye Tong Susan Jane Sinclair Logan |
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| description | Introduction: Disruptions of the postgraduate (PG) teaching programmes by COVID-19 have encouraged a transition to virtual methods of content delivery. This provided an impetus to evaluate the coverage of key learning goals by a pre-existing PG didactic programme in an Obstetrics and Gynaecology Specialty Training Programme. We describe a three-phase audit methodology that was developed for this.
Methods: We performed a retrospective audit of the PG programme conducted by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at National University Hospital, Singapore between January and December 2019 utilising a ten-step Training Needs Analysis (TNA). Content of each session was reviewed and mapped against components of the 15 core Knowledge Areas (KA) of the Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology membership (MRCOG) examination syllabus.
Results: Out of 71 PG sessions, there was a 64.9% coverage of the MRCOG syllabus. Four out of the 15 KAs were inadequately covered, achieving less than 50% of knowledge requirements. More procedural KAs such as “Gynaecological Problems” and those related to labour were poorly (less than 30%) covered. Following the audit, these identified gaps were addressed with targeted strategies.
Conclusion: Our audit demonstrated that our pre-pandemic PG programme poorly covered core educational objectives i.e. the MRCOG syllabus, and required a systematic realignment. The COVID-19 pandemic, while disruptive to our PG programme, created an opportunity to analyse our training needs and revamp our virtual PG programme. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9fb8dd8f54f444689d83e916ec49dea42023-06-21T08:17:35ZengNational University of SingaporeThe Asia Pacific Scholar2424-93352424-92702023-07-0183354410.29060/TAPS.2023-8-3/OA2876Blueprinting and auditing a postgraduate medical education programme – Lessons from COVID-19Rachel Jiayu Lee0Jeannie Jing Yi Yap1Abhiram Kanneganti2Carly Yanlin Wu3Grace Ming Fen Chan4Citra Nurfarah Zaini Mattar5Pearl Shuang Ye Tong6Susan Jane Sinclair Logan7Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital, SingaporeDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital, SingaporeDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital, SingaporeDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital, SingaporeDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital, SingaporeDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital, Singapore; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, SingaporeDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital, Singapore; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, SingaporeDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital, Singapore; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, SingaporeIntroduction: Disruptions of the postgraduate (PG) teaching programmes by COVID-19 have encouraged a transition to virtual methods of content delivery. This provided an impetus to evaluate the coverage of key learning goals by a pre-existing PG didactic programme in an Obstetrics and Gynaecology Specialty Training Programme. We describe a three-phase audit methodology that was developed for this. Methods: We performed a retrospective audit of the PG programme conducted by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at National University Hospital, Singapore between January and December 2019 utilising a ten-step Training Needs Analysis (TNA). Content of each session was reviewed and mapped against components of the 15 core Knowledge Areas (KA) of the Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology membership (MRCOG) examination syllabus. Results: Out of 71 PG sessions, there was a 64.9% coverage of the MRCOG syllabus. Four out of the 15 KAs were inadequately covered, achieving less than 50% of knowledge requirements. More procedural KAs such as “Gynaecological Problems” and those related to labour were poorly (less than 30%) covered. Following the audit, these identified gaps were addressed with targeted strategies. Conclusion: Our audit demonstrated that our pre-pandemic PG programme poorly covered core educational objectives i.e. the MRCOG syllabus, and required a systematic realignment. The COVID-19 pandemic, while disruptive to our PG programme, created an opportunity to analyse our training needs and revamp our virtual PG programme.https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/taps/blueprinting-and-auditing-a-postgraduate-medical-education-programme-lessons-from-covid-19/medical educationresidencypostgraduate educationobstetrics and gynaecologytraining needs analysiscovid-19auditing medical education |
| spellingShingle | Rachel Jiayu Lee Jeannie Jing Yi Yap Abhiram Kanneganti Carly Yanlin Wu Grace Ming Fen Chan Citra Nurfarah Zaini Mattar Pearl Shuang Ye Tong Susan Jane Sinclair Logan Blueprinting and auditing a postgraduate medical education programme – Lessons from COVID-19 The Asia Pacific Scholar medical education residency postgraduate education obstetrics and gynaecology training needs analysis covid-19 auditing medical education |
| title | Blueprinting and auditing a postgraduate medical education programme – Lessons from COVID-19 |
| title_full | Blueprinting and auditing a postgraduate medical education programme – Lessons from COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | Blueprinting and auditing a postgraduate medical education programme – Lessons from COVID-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Blueprinting and auditing a postgraduate medical education programme – Lessons from COVID-19 |
| title_short | Blueprinting and auditing a postgraduate medical education programme – Lessons from COVID-19 |
| title_sort | blueprinting and auditing a postgraduate medical education programme lessons from covid 19 |
| topic | medical education residency postgraduate education obstetrics and gynaecology training needs analysis covid-19 auditing medical education |
| url | https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/taps/blueprinting-and-auditing-a-postgraduate-medical-education-programme-lessons-from-covid-19/ |
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