Creating a Curriculum for Student Engagement: Key Ideas for Health Professions Education

Bys: Harden, Ronald M., Harden, Jeni, Lilley, Pat

Written by highly respected educationalists Harden, Harden, and Lilley, Creating a Curriculum for Student Engagement: Key Ideas for Health Professions Education is a practical guide covering the essential considerations of curriculum making. Using a unique approach, the authors provide a new mental model for planning and implementing a curriculum. Focusing on five stages of student engagement-interest, commitment, facilitation, futureproofing, and assessment-readers are offered numerous practical ideas from creating authentic and inclusive curricula through selecting and organising content, applying educational strategies, implementing new technologies, and embedding assessment for learning. Whether in medicine and healthcare professions or postgraduate and continuing education programmes, 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.Offers a new student engagement model that prompts the reader to consider what makes a successful curriculum and how this can be delivered in practiceHelps refine curricula to produce clinicians with the appropriate knowledge, understanding, and clinical skills for the futureStresses the interconnected nature of the curriculum and the interdependence of its elementsProvides necessary theoretical understanding in an accessible wayAssists in refocusing teaching on what matters most and what has the biggest impact on studentsCovers important topics including equity, diversity, and inclusion; issues involved in curriculum collaborations; and quality assuranceAn eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443128006
• ISBN13: 9780443128004
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Length: 250 Pages