OED Service Policies

The OED Advisory Committee has agreed to two specific policies related to the provision of academic support services.

1. Service Priorities*

Based upon the mission of UAMS and the Office of Educational Development, the priorities of service are as follows.

• Projects directly related to the teaching, learning, and evaluation of students in the five health professions colleges and graduate school.
• Projects related to the teaching and learning of residents in the College of Medicine and postgraduate students in the College of Pharmacy.
• Projects funded externally that relate to:

1. Health professions education in general

2. Patient education

3. Consumer education

• Other

2. Suggested Guidelines and Further Clarification**

OED primarily provides consultation services in the design and implementation of instructional programs and educational evaluation. To that end it can provide some support for the production or implementation of prototype instructional programs or the evaluation of programs. It is not staffed to provide “free” production services or ongoing evaluation services that require significant resources.

OED will contract for a fee with units within UAMS to provide needed production and ongoing evaluation support services. Recent examples of such contracts are:

• Production of web-based modules for Dept. of Geriatrics
• Production of web-based modules for GME curriculum
• Curriculum development and evaluation of GME programs

OED services provided for externally-funded projects are done so under a contract between OED (with the Director’s approval) and the primary investigator or project director.

*Approved by the OED Advisory Committee 12/8/97; amended 7/27/01

**Accepted by the OED Advisory Committee 7/27/01

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