About Us
The Harvard Medical School-Curriculum Committee(CurrCmte)
Meets monthly (2 hours)
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The Curriculum Committee will provide an interdisciplinary forum for faculty oversight of the New Pathway curriculum and its successor, functioning primarily as an advisory, deliberative and, most importantly, legislative body. The new Curriculum Committee will address the full scope of educational policy issues, fostering integration and innovation; propose, set, interpret and enforce policies concerning curriculum development, implementation, management, operation and evaluation; and determine course requirements and credits for all New Pathway courses and all clerkships leading to the M.D. degree. The two-year preclinical Health Science and Technology (HST) curriculum is governed by a parallel but separate process (the HST MD Curriculum Committee).
Membership on the Committee will include leaders of the curriculum, including new and revised curricular components scheduled to be implemented as part of Medical Education Reform. The Dean for Medical Education, Jules Dienstag, will chair the Curriculum Committee, and Dr. Ron Arky will serve as Vice Chair. Both preclinical course directors and clerkship directors will be represented and will have a voice in their own governance. Part of their charge will be to represent, as well as to convey information back to, other course and clerkship directors, and we anticipate that membership of course and clerkship directors on the Curriculum Committee will rotate among course and clerkship leadership. The Masters of the Academic Societies; the Executive Director of Curriculum Programs; the Associate Dean for Medical Education Planning and Administration; the Dean for Students; the HMS Registrar; and the Directors of Evaluation and of the Center for Teaching Excellence will serve as ex officio members of the Curriculum Committee. Student representatives will participate as well. Renee Singleton will provide staff support.
A Curriculum Executive/Planning Committee, consisting of the Chair and Vice Chair of the Curriculum Committee, the Executive Director of Curriculum Programs, and the Associate Dean for Medical Education Planning and Administration, will meet twice monthly to identify issues for consideration by the Curriculum Committee, to oversee the operating and faculty compensation budgets for required courses, to prepare the Curriculum Committee agenda, and to address urgent issues that emerge between Curriculum Committee meetings.
Customarily, any member of the HMS community may bring proposals for curricular innovation, requests for changes in policies or other business to the Curriculum Committee for review, final consideration, and approval. The Executive/Planning Committee will take the responsibility of screening such proposals for the Curriculum Committee.
Feeding into and informing the Curriculum Committee will be the following:
- An Executive Advisory Committee on Medical Education [yet to be formed], consisting of medical education leadership at the affiliated hospitals and the Director of the Academy;
- A committee that oversees the preclinical curriculum, successor to the MER Introduction to the Profession and the Fundamentals of Medicine Design Groups. The Medical Science Education Steering Committee will be folded into this committee;
- A committee that oversees the Principal Clinical Experience (PCE), successor to the MER PCE Design Group. The Clinical Education Steering Committee will be folded into this committee;
- A committee that oversees electives and advanced clerkships, successor to the Medical Education Reform (MER) Advanced Experiences Design Group. The Committee on Courses and Credits, which now focuses on elective courses, will be folded into this committee;
- A committee/advisory board that oversees the new in-depth concentrations, successor to the MER In-Depth Concentrations Design Group;
- The Center for Evaluation, which will subsume the Assessment Committee;
- The Culturally Competent Care Education Committee.
Reporting directly to the Dean for Medical Education, independent [to avoid potential conflict of interest] of the Curriculum Committee and the Academic Societies, will be the Promotion and Review Board. The Committee on Admissions, the Financial Aid Committee, and the Committee on Honors in a Special Field will also report directly to the Dean for Medical Education. Membership on these committees will not be affected by the changes in committee structure outlined above.
Annual Reports to the Curriculum Committee:
Honors in a Special Field Committee
MD/MBA Program
MD/PhD Program
Admissions Committee
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renee_singleton@hms.harvard.edu
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