Acıbadem University School of Medicine was established in 2007 and accepted its first students into the academic year starting in 2009. The Medical Education Program was accredited by TEPDAD (The Association for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Medical Education Programs) in 2016. Currently, approximately 300 students study and 600 faculty members work at the medical school.
The campus features a Center of Advanced Simulation and Education (CASE) while clinical practice takes place at two affiliated hospitals (Atakent and Maslak) and two Education and Research Districts of Ümraniye and Gaziosmanpaşa.
Medium of instruction at the School of Medicine is English and the education is based on an integrated curriculum. The medical education program features three phases: Phase I (Year 1,2 and 3) is integrated Basic Sciences and Clinical Medicine, Phase II (Year 4 and 5) is Clinical Clerkships and Phase III (Year 6) is Internship.
Phase I also includes Clinical Medicine and Professional Skills (CMPS) which is a program designed to be an initial introduction to medical professionalism providing students with relevant knowledge and skills. This program includes applied communication and clinical skills courses designed to help students with improving their skills prior to meeting patients during the Clinical Clerkship phase. This year, a unique integrated program is added to the Curriculum of Year 3: “Transition to Clinical Clerkships” (TCC). It starts after the end of the Final Exam and success in TCC will be required to start Phase II clerkships.
Students develop their clinical skills by participating in programs at the Center of Advanced Simulation and Education (CASE). CASE, with its high standard and quality infrastructure and staff, has a leading role in the development of simulated clinical practice at the local and international levels. There is a wide range of simulated clinical methods that can be developed and applied in this Center.
AREA / SUBJECT OF THE FELLOWSHIP
The fellowship programme will be on medical education / simulated clinical practice, and interprofessional education in health care.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED FELLOWSHİP ACTIVITY
There will be two main activities for the fellow at the School of Medicine:
- Being an instructor/trainer of an educational module which is newly designed and implemented to the curriculum,
- Planning an initial course on interprofessional education in health care for Transition to Clinical Clerkships (TCC) program (3rd-year students).
1) This year, a new module is going to be implemented in the third year of the medical education program which is named “Transition to Clinical Clerkship” (TCC). This module will take place at the Clinical Simulation Center (in CASE) and the hospitals. During this module, students will participate in the simulated clinical practices to improve their skills on clinical reasoning, basic clinical skills (such as physical examination, history taking, procedural skills, etc.)
The fellow will join these educational activities of TCC in the Clinical Simulation Center and work with the faculty members, residents and peer trainers (interns).
2) The fellow will join the planning activities for an interprofessional education course for the TCC program during the period of the fellowship. This course of the interprofessional education in health care will help medical and nursing students to learn interactively together, for the explicit purpose of improving interprofessional collaboration on the health/well-being of patients and communities.
This course will be designed through organising workshops with the participation of curriculum design team members and students.
Afterward, the course will be implemented and evaluated; and it can be applied by the fellow in Armenia, as well.
EXPECTED PROFILE
- The fellow should be specialized in healthcare education and qualified in the field of health sciences.
- S/he has been an experience in the simulated clinical practice.
- It is more preferable if the fellow is interested in multicultural and multi-professional education in health care.
CONDITIONS OF THE FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY
The exact schedule of the fellowhship is to be decided upon agreement between the fellow and the host organisation.
PROPOSED TIME FOR THE FELLOWSHIP
Starting from end of July until the beginning of August 2020 (the dates may change according to the developments regarding the Covid-19 pandemic)