TOR For Medical Curriculum Mapping Expert – Somaliland

FOR MEDICAL CURRICULUM MAPPING EXPERT

Introduction

Prepared for Practice is led by King’s project Working at an individual level with students, at an institutional level with medical, nursing and midwifery schools within the University of Hargeisa, Amoud University and Edna Adan university, and the national level with the Ministries of Education and Health Development, the partnership seeks to graduate a new generation of health workers, and bring about sustainable, systemic change that will transform education for the health workers of the future.  Prepared for Practice is part of the UK aid-funded Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Innovation and Reform (SPHEIR) programme (www.spheir.org.uk), which is supported by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).

THET’s specific role has been to support the Somaliland Government and regulators to improve
the policy and regulation of higher medical education.
The National Harmonized Medical Curriculum has been developed and agreed through
consensus meetings of decision makers and leaders in health and higher education. The
stakeholders agreed that health training institutions and clinical teaching facilities need to meet
quality standards if they are to produce doctors competent to apply their skills and learning to
meet the health needs of people in Somaliland.The content of the medical programmes taught
should be directly relevant to the health needs of the people of Somaliland and appropriate to
the context in which doctors will practice. The stakeholder meeting agreed on the need for
review of the medical curriculum and proposed standards based on World Federation for
Medical Education (WFME) standards which are globally recognized and appropriate to the
Somaliland context.
During 2019, stakeholders from the medical schools in Somaliland contributed to the design
and content of the National Harmonized Curriculum and participated in formulating its mission
and educational outcomes. This Harmonized Curriculum has been designed according to the
‘Basic Medical Education WFME Global Standards for Quality Improvement, 2017’. The
curriculum, syllabus and intended learning outcomes have been completed.
What are curriculum maps
CMs are centralized resources that provide a visual representation of the different components
of the curriculum. By explicitly outlining and linking required intended learning outcomes (ILOs) with content, learning resources and assessment, clarity and transparency is improved.

Moreover, enabling students to note connections and relevance to what is being taught,

promotes self-directed learning. From a programme governance perspective, CMs can be used

to demonstrate quality assurance.

Why develop a curriculum map

The curriculum mapping is needed so that students, staff and regulatorsare assured that there

is clear unified syllabus with clarity on content of knowledge, skills and professionalism and

how these areintegrated and assessed

Objectives and deliverables

The main objective of this curriculummapping isto preparea document for students and staff to

guide teaching, learning and assessments, and ultimately for professional practice. The medical

students require an understanding of the different components of the curriculum as well as

how these can be accessed.

Specific objectives

 To improve clarity around the syllabus,

 To outline content for assessment,

 Improve the student experience

Deliverables

An easy to access document setting out how the various components of the curriculum relate

to each other and showing how the ILOs meet the syllabus requirements across the 6-year

curriculum.

Work plan

An initial briefing will be provided to the consultant to agree the approach to be followedby

mainly desk based work. The consultant will have access to Somaliland colleagues and King’s

expert volunteers who developed the curriculum, syllabus and ILOs. Exact detail to be agreed

when the consultant is appointed.

PROFILE

 Masters’ or further university degree in Health Profession’s Education, or other related

field.

 Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in medical education, preferably with

experience in Somaliland

 Experience working in complex environments and on national curriculum matters Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
 Fluency in English is required
Consultancy Timeline & Payment
The work is to begin in November and will be completed in December. Total level of effort
anticipated to be between 7-10 days.

How to apply
Interested individual consultants should submit a cover letter, CV/s and detailed work plan
to recruitment-som@thet.org, no later than 22nd of November 2021. Submissions will be
assessed on a rolling basis. If a suitable candidate has been identified prior to the closing date
THET may close the application process early.
Terms
The consultant will cover his/her local travel cost for project purposes and is responsible for
his/her own insurance and relevant government taxes.
The selected experts/consultants must be available to provide appropriate levels of input at
various stages throughout the assignment delivery.
The consultant must comply with the THET King’s rules and procedures related to
security. THET is fully committed to the safeguarding of all children and at-risk adults from all
forms of violence. The successful candidate is expected to commit to THET Safeguarding Policy
and guidelines for the duration of employment.

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