Workshops on Teaching Methodology & Educational Science

Since its establishment in 1983, one of the terms of references of Centre for Medical Education (CME) has been to train medical & dental teachers to provide effective teaching-learning, effectively prepare and use instructional materials/ media, develop and use appropriate assessment methods and evaluate the whole medical education process of their respective teaching institutes. Keeping this in mind, CME has been regularly arranging workshops for one-week on ‘Educational Science & Teaching Methodology for the teachers of different medical colleges of Bangladesh.

Workshops on Quality Assurance in Medical Education & Training

Among the several factors influencing the quality of health care, perhaps the most fundamental is the education and training of the doctors who deliver that care. Quality Assurance (QA) in medical education is one of the means of maintaining and improving standards of health care delivery.

Because of this Centre for Medical Education (CME) has recognized the need of the teachers of medical colleges to become more oriented about quality assurance in medical education and acquire practical knowledge about how this should be implemented and effectively maintained. Based on this need a four days workshop is regularly being arranged by CME both at the centre and also in different public and private medical colleges since 1998.

Workshops on Assessment Methods

On demand of the teachers of medical colleges, since November 2005 CME has been arranging workshops on the present assessment system in MBBS course (according to the new curriculum 2002) in Bangladesh. The topics discussed in these workshops are –
 

                                      Principles of Assessment

                                      Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)

                                      Short Answer Questions (SAQ)

                                      Structured Oral Examination (SOE)

                                      Objective Structured Practical/ Clinical Examination  (OSPE/ OSCE).
 

In these workshops the teachers are practicing the correct preparation of questions to maintain validity, reliability, objectivity and feasibility of each assessment system. Also they are discussing ways of proper management and arrangement of these assessment procedures according to the manpower available in individual medical college.

Problem-Based Learning (PBL)

In this age of on-hand information it is no longer sufficient to teach medical students today’s “state-of-the-art” science. The physician of the future must learn how to learn, how to select and integrate appropriate information to diagnose and mange their patients’ problems in the best possible manner. Problem-based learning allows individualisation of instruction, helping students to focus on issues they deem relevant.

Centre for Medical Education (CME) in collaboration with WHO, Bangladesh has arranged workshops for ‘Orientation on Problem-based Learning’ in nineteen medical colleges. In these workshops the teachers of medical colleges are being oriented with the term of problem-based learning, examples of how to prepare problems to stimulate learning, role of the students and teachers in this type of teaching-learning session, conduction of the session, benefits and drawbacks of PBL, etc

Others

Health Ethics

Accreditation

Management