The Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, Taif University, will be a centre of excellence in medical education within the Kingdom, in the region, and beyond.

To provide the College of Medicine innovative educational activities and educational leadership within the undergraduate and postgraduate education programs, and advance the science of education through novel research in medical and health professionals education.

The faculty and staff of the Department of Medical Education will uphold the core values of altruism, probity, scholarship, innovation, and excellence.

The Department of Medical Education will support its mission through service provision, educational research, faculty development, health professions education - fostered through local, regional, and international collaborations.

The Department of Medical Education will actively engage in enhancing the learning and teaching processes, the learning environment, the quality of assessment and evaluation, and will further the basis of decision making through pioneering educational research.

The Department of Medical Education will be at the core of educational research for the College. This will be accomplished by establishing strategic partnerships with other educational research centers within and around the Kingdom and the world, and through advancing the science of education in the health professions by conducting and publishing state-of-the-art research.

Since improving the entire educational spectrum of the College is a pivotal task of the Department, faculty development is a principle responsibility. The Department conducts, explores, and researches a wide range of faculty development activities on the basis of needs assessment and national and international requirements. These activities range from intensive face-to-face workshops to independent virtual learning formats.

The Department aims to advance the educational quality of the health professions by conducting post-graduate programs in fundamental educational strategies for health professionals and faculty members locally and abroad.

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TASKS

-    Supervision of the regular review of the curriculum and address any implementation issues.
-    Plan and implement CME Programs: Preparing a calendar of CME activities in consultation with various committees and academic departments.
-    Follow up the implementation of the Exit Exam for students:
     o  A graduation test is applied to measure program outcomes based on the quality of higher
         education outputs and to measure the extent to which learning outcomes are achieved in
         higher education institutions in terms of quantity and quality.
     o  Documenting and proving it for the stakeholders of male and female students, the labour  
        market and other local and international higher education sectors or local and international
        accreditation institutions.
    o  Program outcomes, according to the accreditation body, is a description of the concepts and
       skills that students are expected to acquire from the program in order to achieve the
       educational objectives of the program (Varma, 2006).
-    Supervision and follow-up of the Progress Test
The Progress Test (PT) is the final exam in which all the learning objectives of the medical curriculum are tested and all students of different levels participate in it. The increased level of knowledge among students of different years results in different test scores which are used to assess the learning outcomes of the program and compare them to the local average (LA) of performance and the national average (NA) of performance in Saudi Arabia.