To consider how the consultation on priority sustainability learning outcomes is relevant to you and your medical school, we recommend inviting medical school faculty to a focus group to devise a response from your medical school. You can email the Priority Learning Outcomes document out in your invitation. Bring copies of the response questionnaire to the meeting, and with a small group of participants discussing the objectives may provoke interesting debate. About an hour and a half is likely to be long enough to work through all the questions as long as you stay focused, with a good facilitator and note taker.
If your focus group includes key members of your medical school staff or if you are able to gain approval from key medical school faculty, you may be able to give a response on behalf of the medical school. If not, you can present your response as a group or as individuals which is also very valuable.
Has anyone had any success with engaging their tutors/colleagues in the consultation so far?
Frances
I'd really recommend asking tutors at your med school to come to a meeting about the document. I did it at HYMS. There were 5 of us in the meeting, but it included some of those leading the curriculum review, and they had really interesting ideas about the document.
Some of it they liked, some they didn't, and it generated really good discussion. We now have an official HYMS response, which I'll submit soon, and the tutors have thought about including sustainability in the new HYMS curriculum!
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