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20260412890The Master of Medical Education at King Abdulaziz University is designed to prepare distinguished leaders and scholars in health professions education. The program equips graduates with advanced knowledge and skills in educational theory, curriculum development, assessment, leadership, and research to advance health professions education at the local, national, and international levels. It integrates coursework and research to prepare graduates for academic leadership and educational development.
To be a leading program in preparing leaders and scholars who advance health professions education locally, regionally, and internationally.
To produce exemplary leaders and scholars who will advance the field of health profession education locally, nationally, and internationally.
| Course Code | Course | Credits | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEED 822 | Program Evaluation | 4 | – |
| Description | The graduate will be able to demonstrate applied knowledge of basic evaluation concepts and strategies, describe ,compare and contrast , and analyze applicability of major evaluation approaches – with respect to: major proponents and investigators; purposes; distinguishing characteristics; past uses; benefits and limitations and demonstrate applied knowledge of practical guidelines for program evaluation, by: evaluating an evaluation plan; designing a plan for a program described in a written case and designing a plan for your curriculum project | ||
| MEED 824 | Developing the performance of faculty members | 4 | – |
| Description | The course helps the graduate to define broad range of activities designed to prepare, assist, renew faculty, in various positions and career stages , for their academic roles and responsibilities of teaching, research, administration, writing and/or career development and to focus on the meaning, purposes, foci, methods and evaluation of faculty development programs and activities in health profession education. | ||
| MEED 827 | Biostatistics | 4 | – |
| Description | The graduate will be able to understand the true concept and application of biostatistics , differentiate between parametric data and non parametric data explore a variety of techniques for analyzing parametric and non parametric data and provides hands-on experience performing these analyses with statistical package for social science (SPSS) . The student will be able to perform correlation and regression. This course helps the student to formulate tables and interpret data for the performed statistical analysis. | ||
| MEED 801 | Teaching and Assessment in Medical Education2 | 3 | – |
| Description | This course helps the graduate to apply major perspectives on curriculum design and renewal, including the (curriculum coherence) systems approach, identify ' lessons learned' from current writings about curriculum, design a curriculum that includes : general and targeted needs assessments, goals and objectives: teaching and learning methods; assessment for students, evaluation of the curriculum, and plans for maintenance, renewal and dissemination. And also to demonstrate knowledge of health professions curriculum trends and movements, demonstrate applied knowledge of basic evaluation concepts and strategies, describe ,compare and contrast , and analyze applicability of major evaluation approaches – with respect to: major proponents and investigators, purposes, distinguishing characteristics, past uses, benefits and limitations. And to demonstrate applied knowledge of practical guidelines for program evaluation by : evaluating an evaluation plan, designing a plan for a program described in a written case and designing a plan for your curriculum project. | ||
| MEED 802 | Scientific excellence in medical education | 3 | – |
| Description | This course helps the graduate to define and find examples of types of scholarship in education and health professions education (HPE) in particular, including scholarship of discovery, scholarship of integration and scholarship of application, distinguish excellent teaching from scholarly teaching and doing scholarship about teaching. And, evaluate works of scholarship in education based on standards of scholarship including clear goals, adequate preparation, appropriate methods, significant results, effective presentation, and reflective critique. Also, to prepare a position paper on a HPE matter of current concern in the student's work place, based on a careful analysis of available scholarship. | ||
| MEED 803 | Leadership in Health Professions Education | 3 | – |
| Description | This course helps students to compare and contrast different forms of organizational structure and propose structural approaches to solving organizational programs, be aware of organizational culture and identify organizational symbols and their importance . And analyze systems for selecting, training, and motivating people in organizations, discriminate different theories of leadership. Also, to evaluate effective and ineffective leadership, and discuss leadership and change skills and identify the uses of power and authority in organizations, by leaders and others. | ||
| MEED 820 | Medical Simulations | 4 | – |
| Description | The graduate will be able to explore characteristics of simulations, from low tech to high fidelity, and their use in a variety of settings and professions and examine the use of simulations particularly in competence assessment, including cognitive , affective and performance skills. | ||
| MEED 800 | Teaching and Assessment in Medical Education 1 | 3 | – |
| Description | This course helps the graduate to use theories of learning and cognition ,instructional strategies, and assessment in his/her health professions education work, use concepts of validity and reliability in determining optimal strategies for learning situations he/she wishes to assess. Also, it helps to describe differences between clinical and traditional classroom teaching/assessment, apply educational principles to improve clinical teaching and assessment in undergraduate and graduate health professions educational settings. And to plan for written, observational, and performance assessments in the light of general principles of assessment as related to course design and instruction, discover the uses and limitations of oral examinations and recognize sources and errors and identify the use of portfolios in teaching and assessment | ||
| MEED 894 | Research methods | 3 | – |
| Description | This course helps the graduate to be scholar in health professions education, define different research/scholarship paradigm or forms of inquiry, research design, research methods, instruments for data collection, types of data collected, methods of data analysis. And provide him/her with a broad overview of qualitative methods ,develop the skills in qualitative data analysis, design, implementation, and reporting of qualitative studies. Also to provide him/ her with the knowledge of published qualitative studies conducted in the area of health science education and skills in critical analysis of such studies | ||
| MEED 823 | Ethics and Professional Standards | 4 | – |
| Description | The course helps the graduate to review key elements in Ethics education: Oaths, rituals, honor and professional codes, curricula and accreditation standards and review representative debates about what standards should govern medicine and to identify ways of introducing those standards to undergraduate medical education and residency training. | ||
| MEED 825 | Assessment Methods | 4 | – |
| Description | This course helps the graduate to develop assessment plan and create assessment instruments. And get emphasis on development, use and appraisal of multiple choice tests and test items, controlled clinical performance examinations an traditional clinical performance ratings. | ||
| MEED 899 | Thesis | 8 | – |
| Description | The graduate will be able to synthesize, extend, and apply the knowledge and competencies he /she develops during the program. And complete a work of scholarship that could be applicable to all disciplines and reflecting the actual work of the faculty. | ||
| MEED 821 | Introduction to Quantitative Data Analysis | 4 | – |
| Description | The graduate will be able to explore a variety of techniques for analyzing behavioral science or educational data and provides hands-on experience performing these analyses with statistical software and gain a sense of the breadth of techniques available for understanding and exploring relationship in data. | ||
| MEED 826 | Using standardized patients for Assessment | 4 | – |
| Description | This course helps the graduate to get the basic knowledge and skills necessary for faculty who design and implement standardized patient assessments and OSCEs in health professions education settings. And be exposed to different topics including : introduction to standardized patients, case writing, training standardized patients, exam blueprinting, assessing encounters, scoring and standard setting, and reporting and interpreting exam results. | ||
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