Goals and Objectives

Competency Based Goals and Objectives

Objectives  Demonstrate basic knowledge in the anatomy, physiology, and embryology of organ system as it pertains to surgical diseases.  Demonstrate basic knowledge in the pathology and diagnosis of surgical diseases and understand the fundamentals of evaluating surgical risks in both elective and emergency settings.  Discuss the basic principles of preoperative and postoperative management,...

The Goals Grid: A Tool for Clarifying Goals and Objectives

Several years back, a meeting of the Operations Executive Council in my company was focused on the five-year corporate planning effort then getting underway. At this meeting I distributed a simple framework for classifying, organizing, and analyzing goals and objectives (see the Goals Grid in Figure 1 below). My colleagues saw this framework as very useful and so I was led to present it to a wi...

Continuing medical education (CME): goals and objectives.

Statement of Professional Goals and Objectives

The past two decades have seen the growing importance of statistical thought in providing practical solutions to real-world problems. The engineer, the scientist, the medical researcher, the business and public policy-maker all want the statistician as a partner in the effort to address vexing issues of practical significance. At play are multiple levels of statistical expertise – that of the e...

Course goals, competencies, and instructional objectives.

This article describes how to compose instructional objectives for use in veterinary curricula, and describes the differences between course goals, competencies, and instructional objectives. The essential components of instructional objectives are described in detail, and guidance in choosing appropriate wording is provided. The paper concludes with a suggested framework for evaluating an inst...