Reforming the 4th-Year Curriculum as a Springboard to Graduate Medical Training: One School's Experiences and Lessons Learned

Abstract

Lessons learned from our 4th-year reform process are discussed. Listening to the needs of the stakeholders was an important step in ensuring buy-in, having an institutional champion with an organizational perspective on the overall institutional mission was helpful in building the guiding coalition for change, building highly interactive collaborative interdisciplinary teams to work together addressed departmental silos and tunnel vision early on, and planning a curriculum is exciting but planning the details of the implementation can be quite tedious.