Bringing the Veterinary Medicine Curriculum to the Fingertips of Faculty and Students: A Novel Curriculum Search and Analysis Tool.

Abstract

Curriculum review is a required and essential part of the continuous improvement process to ensure that all elements of the curriculum are integrated to help students achieve intended outcomes. It is also an effective way of avoiding a disparity between the knowledge and skills students gain throughout their education and the knowledge and skills required in practice. One commonly used curriculum analysis approach is curriculum mapping, which requires extensive labor and time commitment. This best practice paper describes the development of a curriculum search and analysis tool that utilizes novel computational analysis techniques from data science and artificial intelligence approaches to enhance the quality of curriculum maps by increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the curriculum analysis and mapping process.