Consultancy

At Smart MedEd Solutions, we believe in the power of collaboration. Your vision combined with our expertise leads to transformative outcomes in health professions education. We start each consultancy with a comprehensive analysis of your current situation and a targeted needs assessment. By using validated templates and Gen AI tools, we ensure that our solutions are evidence-based as well as sensitive to your specific needs. 

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Curriculum

    • Curriculum Design (CD) for undergraduate and graduate HPE courses: Do you need a curriculum that aligns with educational objectives and competencies? We help you develop your curriculum using a systematic scholarly approach. We have our unique validated electronic templates and brainstorming questions for each of the CD steps. 

    • Interprofessional Education (IPE): Interested in fostering collaborative practice among health professionals? We provide you with the tools and expertise to design effective IPE curricula. We help you to perform evaluation of institutional preparedness for IPE and to integrate IPE learning activities longitudinally into your curriculum according to a validated framework.

    • Health Systems Science (HSS): Did you know that integrating health systems science into medical education can enhance healthcare delivery? We assist you in mapping  your current courses to HSS competencies and in creating curricula that incorporate the essential HSS concepts and applications.

    • Simulation-Based Education: Looking to provide hands-on clinical skills and procedures training experiences in a safe learning environment? We help you develop educationally effective simulation-based curricula using our published approach and worksheet that are currently used in multiple countries over the globe .

    • Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs): Interested in integrating EPAs into your graduate training programs? We provide you with the tools and expertise to build your curriculum based on the EPAs framework. Our electronic template facilitates the seamless integration of EPAs into your current graduate training program curriculum.

  • Do you want to ensure your curriculum meets current educational and accreditation standards? We work with you to evaluate and validate your existing curricula using a step-wise approach that we validated from curriculum development experts at Johns Hopkins University. We provide you with a curriculum review and validated report delivered by at least two eminent experts. 

  • GenAI-Powered Alignment and Mapping: Need to align your curriculum with newly developed undergraduate foundational competencies? We offer a comprehensive service that leverages Generative AI (GenAI) technology for efficient and accurate restructuring of your curriculum outcomes and mapping to any new competency framework.

Evaluation

    • Need to evaluate learner performance and competency attainment? We help you to develop assessment programs with enhanced evidence of constructive validity.

    • Looking to use EPAs as an effective assessment framework? We assist you to evaluate learner competencies using EPAs and ensure they are ready for professional practice. 

  • Interested in measuring the effectiveness of your educational programs? We collaborate with you to conduct thorough evaluations and identify areas for improvement. We use an adaptation of the CDC program evaluation step-wise approach.

  • Did you know that studying the return on investment (ROI) of educational interventions can ensure they deliver value? We help you analyze the impact of your interventions.

Faculty Development

  • Are you looking to identify the specific development needs of your faculty? We can help you conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to tailor your faculty development programs effectively.

  • Interested in organizing a well-structured faculty development calendar? We assist in planning a variety of activities to meet your faculty's diverse needs.

  • Need tools to measure the impact of your faculty development efforts? We design evaluation and feedback forms to ensure continuous improvement.

  • Concerned about maintaining high standards in your faculty development programs? We provide a quality assurance checklist to help you monitor and uphold excellence.

Educational Scholarship Manuscript Peer Review

  • Preparing an educational scholarship manuscript for journal submission? We offer expert peer review services for health professions education scholars seeking timely, constructive feedback without waiting months for formal journal reviews. Each manuscript receives rigorous review by two independent peer reviewers, with a focus on strengthening scholarly quality and readiness for submission to high-quality, peer-reviewed journals. While SMES does not guarantee publication, this scholarly, advisory service supports informed submission decisions and helps authors avoid unnecessary delays.

  • Have you received reviewer comments and are preparing a revision? We provide expert peer review of revised manuscripts and response documents to help authors address reviewer feedback clearly, thoroughly, and strategically. Reviewers focus on the adequacy of responses, coherence of revisions, and overall improvement of the manuscript prior to resubmission.

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This service follows established academic publishing ethics and conflict-of-interest standards.

  • We assist you to conduct your self-study, SWOT analysis, meet the accreditation standards and respond to reviewers comments.

  • Preparing for accreditation? We assist you in ensuring your simulation center meets all required standards.

  • Need guidance on accreditation criteria for simulation courses? We provide expertise in designing and implementing compliant courses.

Accreditation Preparation

Master’s of HPE Programs

  • Are you looking to establish a new Master's program in Health Professions Education? We can assist you in designing a comprehensive and innovative curriculum that meets the latest educational standards and needs.

  • Do you have an existing Master's program in HPE that needs review and validation? We provide expert evaluation to ensure your program aligns with current best practices and incorporates recent trends and innovations in the field.

Generative AI

  • Interested in leveraging GenAI to enhance learning and innovation? We help you explore and integrate GenAI technologies into your curriculum.

  • Interested in leveraging AI to enhance your curriculum design process, clinical and simulation-based learner assessment, research appraisal, or program evaluation? We engineer customizable GenAI prompts that faculty and institutions can use with confidence and with full consideration of GenAI ethical considerations.

Well-Being

  • Concerned about the well-being of your residents and combating burnout? We help you to design a system-level framework to design comprehensive programs that promote residents' well-being and address burnout effectively. Our collaborative approach ensures that interventions are tailored to your specific needs and organizational context. We utilize a methodology that integrates the Design thinking approach, the National Academies system-level framework and GenAI.

Many Others!

  • At Smart MedEd Solutions, we are dedicated to helping you achieve excellence in health professions education. Contact us to discover how our collaborative approach can bring your vision to life.