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Many clinicians associate “curriculum” with traditional classroom or simulation-based education.  In these settings, goals and objectives guide the instruction, materials, and activities of the session and teachers control much of the learning experience. 

In contrast, clinical teachers find it difficult to plan a "curriculum" for dynamic, highly variable workplace learning environments. In this presentation, faculty will explain how to think strategically about a curriculum for the workplace, using examples of curricula for shared medical appointments.  Faculty for this presentation will address:

· A curricular framework for workplace learning in VA Primary Care

· Concepts to include: orientation, participation, sequencing, scaffolding and entrustment

· Curricula examples such as shared medical appointments, diabetes management and pain management

Bridget O’Brien, PhD, Director of Scholarship and Evaluation, VA Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education and Associate Professor, University of California at San Francisco, Department of Medicine

India King, PsyD, Associate Director of Evaluation and Performance Improvement and Primary Care Psychologist and Psychology Faculty in the Boise Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education. Affiliated with Idaho State University, School of Pharmacy and University of Washington, Psychiatry.

Mimi Singh, MD, MS, Physician Director, Center of Excellence, Primary Care Education, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center; Assistant Dean, Health Systems Science, Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine, and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University

Amber K. Fisher,  PharmD, BCACP, Co-Director, Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education and PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Director, Boise VA Medical Center