Recognition for Dr. Moreland after Pilot UME Session Success
Dr. Robert Moreland (Director, Undergraduate Medical Education) received glowing praise for his work on the recent pilot Integrated MAPS (medical imaging, anatomy, pathology, surgery) session for the pre-clerkship.
Dr. Anne McLeod (Foundations Director, Year 1) commented: "Rob was incredibly helpful in integrating medical imaging cases into modules and giving an intro to med imaging lecture in the session. Rob was also able to recruit med imaging trainees and faculty to help during the hands-on small group sessions in the anatomy labs and the students LOVED having access to med imaging experts. Rob has been inundated with requests from med students to be involved and to shadow him".
Since his appointment in January 2022, one of Dr. Moreland's top priorities has been to incorporate more medical imaging content into the MD program curriculum. He hopes to have at least a quarter of the UG anatomy teaching done directly by the program, and include some of our trainees in the teaching.
Dr. Moreland added: "The MAPS program will eventually expand to include a large fraction of the anatomy instruction and will replace our current approach for the most part. We plan to be the primary method of anatomy instruction, we also want to integrate that instruction for the first time back into the materials being taught during that week in the program (until now anatomy has always been just this separate thing floating around in isolation). This means the students will be getting regular radiology instruction every week or other week, and in addition, we will be helping teach the bulk of anatomy. For staff, there will be many more opportunities to teach directly to undergraduate students. We will no longer be this relatively faceless unknown to them anymore".
Dr. Moreland is also mapping out other areas of the current undergraduate curriculum where medical imaging is featured and working on how those parts can be taught by radiologists rather than how the current system works.