MonKeyMed - Monitoring Key Quality Indicators at the Faculty of Medicine

About the project

To ensure that future medical professionals provide quality healthcare, the University of Oslo mandates its educational programs to undergo continuous quality improvement. A good learning environment improves student performance and fosters student well-being. On the flipside, a poor learning environment impairs learning and mental health.

At the UIO Faculty of Medicine, the student’s average rating of the learning environment steadily declined from 4.3 to 3.5 in 2023. These infrequent surveys were the only routinely collected data describing the learning environment and student well-being at the Faculty of Medicine. It is therefore unclear whether the learning environment is truly declining, or if natural variation explains the trend. In addition, these national surveys do not capture which aspects of the learning environment the students are addressing, and consequently, the faculty has little understanding of what measures may improve conditions.

To perform continuous quality improvement of the learning environment at the Faculty of Medicine, a more frequent and comprehensive system for monitoring and evaluation of learning and the learning environment is essential. This is the goal of MonKeyMed.

Objective

The aim of MonKeyMed is to improve learning outcomes and the learning environment at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. To do so, we established a system of routinely monitoring the learning environment that can be used for quality improvement.

Financing

The project is a collaboration between the Department of Behavioural Medicine,  and Centre for Sustainable Health Education, funded by The Directorate for Higher Education and Skills and the University of Oslo.