Systems Approach to Assessment in Health Professions Education

 The Harvard Macy Institute's faculty development program A Systems Approach to Assessment in Health Professions Education is designed to encourage participants to apply systems thinking in designing assessment programs that supports continuous quality improvement at the level of students/trainees, faculty, curricula, and academic health science institutions. The program incorporates multiple pedagogical methods, including interactive presentations and case discussions, small group journal clubs and Institutional Planning groups, Selectives (focused mini-workshops on assessment tools and approaches), and consultations with faculty experts.

During this 5 day intensive program, educators and administrators from diverse health science disciplines will be introduced to key concepts from system theory, best practices in educational assessment and miniworkshops focused on specific assessment approaches.

Throughout the program, participants will also have an opportunity to apply systems principles in case discussions depicting problematic assessment situations and to plan an assessment/evaluation design to implement at their home institution.