Preparing for an institutional self review using the WFME standards – An International Medical School case study

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The WFME standards continue to provide a useful framework to consider all medical education activities within a medical school engaged in continuous renewal. The process of engaging a panel of independent medical educationalists to visit the school over several years using the WFME standards can help guide and support sustained curriculum reform. Adequate preparation for the visits is critical to the success of such an undertaking and should be supported by a comprehensive communication strategy and project plan.

Figure 1. Revised governance structure at the RCSI to support curriculum reform.

Figure 2. Mean scores and confidence intervals of the 2007/2008 interns of RCSI on each domain of the PHPQ.

Figure 3. Mean scores on PHPQ of University of Sydney problem-based learning (green); University of Sydney traditional curriculum (blue) and RCSI (red).