Curriculum Design and Implementation: Resources, Processes and Results

Purpose To conduct critical reviews of two current health professional programs to test alignment of implementation efforts and governance processes to student, academic and industry expectations and outcomes; To make recommendations for curriculum design and implementation that optimize alignment of course/unit processes and outcomes to expectations of stakeholders. Methods Workshops and iterative processes document analysis, comparative appraisal of website program offerings, analysis of graduate survey responses, literature reviews. Results Implicit in renewal processes were intentions to align to Faculty Vision, ensure viability of offerings, improve responses to student and service needs and monitor impact of design choices on resources. Conclusion Improving alignment of strategies with curriculum design were reliant on good governance of implementation, management of resources supporting learning. Review processes require collaboration between reviewers and members of academic units, consideration of extent of achievement of shared expectations around learning and teaching activities and appraisal of realistic expectations of curriculum.