Making a difference with comprehensive curriculum education

Session Description: This session will be comprised of our best practices of the development and execution of 4 comprehensive curriculum programs. Each program will be presented in a case study format and encourage questions and interaction from and with the attendees.
During the pandemic, our organization began making changes to meet the changing needs of our members and learners of our programming. Through our post activity surveys and outcomes reports, we discovered an un-ment need to begin offering educational programs which build on each other and test the knowledge of learners at each step of the way. We have successfully implement 3 programs with a 4th in the planning process, each covering a different clinical area of need with a different target audience. Our session will cover the unique aspects of each, how we arrived at the gaps in education we needed to address, and how we used technology to produce the programs. Each of these programs was supported by grant funding and we will cover how we successfully secured the industry support, while maintaining the necessary firewalls to keep our CME program balanced and free from any commercial influence. At the end of this session, attendees will take home pearls on developing a needs assessment for curriculum education, how to work with faculty to develop a comprehensive curriculum, how to best use technology to maximize your learners experience, and how to evaluate your programs after completion.

Innovation: By taking advantage of technology uses, not just producing the basic didatic webinar, our curriculum programs have taken our learners expectations to a new high. By increasing interactions with faculty members, question and answer sessions, breakout rooms, and comprehensive post evaluations to measure success, our curriculum programs have made a large impact of our learners as surgeons and physicians, which makes a difference on their patients lives and experience.