Creating a learner-centred curriculum: Key ideas for health professions education

Written by highly respected educationalists Harden & Harden, Creating a Curriculum: Key Ideas for Teachers in the Health Professions is a practical guide covering the essential considerations of curriculum making. In a unique approach, the authors provide a new mental model for planning and implementing a curriculum. Focusing on four stages of student engagement - interest, commitment, facilitation and future proofing - readers are offered practical ideas from creating authentic and inclusive curricula through to selecting and organizing content, applying educational strategies, implementing new technologies and embedding assessment for learning. Whether it’s in medicine and healthcare professions or postgraduate and continuing education programs, empower yourself and your curriculum design, development, and implementation teams to foster an environment where future clinicians are successfully trained to meet the needs of the communities they aim to serve.