Blueprinting and auditing a postgraduate medical education programme – Lessons from COVID-19
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Published:2023-07-04
Issue:3
Volume:8
Page:35-44
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ISSN:2424-9270
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Container-title:The Asia Pacific Scholar
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language:en
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Short-container-title:TAPS
Author:
Lee Rachel Jiayu1, Yap Jeannie Jing Yi1, Kanneganti Abhiram1, Wu Carly Yanlin1, Chan Grace Ming Fen1, Mattar Citra Nurfarah Zaini2, Tong Pearl Shuang Ye2, Logan Susan Jane Sinclair2
Affiliation:
1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital, Singapore 2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital, Singapore; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Abstract
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.
Publisher
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Subject
Health Professions (miscellaneous),Education,Reviews and References (medical),Medicine (miscellaneous)
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