Mapping the undergraduate dermatology curriculum – a useful tool towards implementation of national recommendations

Sharma, M.; Scorer, M.; Kent, D.; Murphy, R.; Doody, G.

Abstract

Despite the high prevalence of skin complaints in primary and secondary care, dermatology undergraduate (UG) education remains inconsistent across medical schools. The British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) published a revised national undergraduate curriculum in 2016 to guide UK medical schools on minimum competencies required in dermatology. A curriculum mapping study was conducted to determine the alignment of the BAD UG curriculum with the dermatology curriculum of the University of Nottingham (UoN) School of Medicine. Of the 70 intended learning outcomes (ILOs) for dermatology in the medical school, 55 (79%) were mapped to the BAD curriculum, 14 (20%) required modifications to align them with the BAD ILOs, 2 BAD outcomes were unspecified in the current curriculum, and 1 outcome overlapped with others and was deemed redundant. Curriculum mapping is a useful tool to standardise local dermatology ILOs to national recommendations and provides transparency to stakeholders for implementation of the dermatology curriculum.

Citation

Sharma, M., Scorer, M., Kent, D., Murphy, R., & Doody, G. (2020). Mapping the undergraduate dermatology curriculum – a useful tool towards implementation of national recommendations. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, 45(3), 337-339. https://doi.org/10.1111/ced.14125

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 18, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Oct 20, 2019
• Publication Date: 2020-04
• Deposit Date: Oct 22, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 21, 2020
• Journal: Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
• Print ISSN: 0307-6938
• Electronic ISSN: 1365-2230
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 337-339
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ced.14125
• Keywords: Dermatology
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2918909
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ced.14125
• Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Sharma, M. , Scorer, M. , Kent, D. , Murphy, R. and Doody, G. (2019), Mapping the undergraduate dermatology curriculum – a useful tool towards implementation of national recommendations. Clin Exp Dermatol, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/ced.14125. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived VersionsThis article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved DR MAULINA SHARMA (Orcid ID : 0000-0001-5983-1173) Article type : Concise Report Funding: This study is part of a PhD project in medical education at University of Nottingham. The British Association of Dermatologists' awarded an Educational Bursary in 2018 towards the PhD. Accepted Article