Stabilizing Curriculum Collaboration Amid Faculty Conflict

You are Dr. Gina the Program Director of an undergraduate medical program at a university.

Over the current semester, several problems have emerged: • Student evaluations

show a clear decline in satisfaction with teaching quality • Junior faculty members feel excluded

from curriculum decisions • Senior faculty resist curriculum updates,

stating: “We’ve taught this way for years” • A recent curriculum committee meeting

ended in conflict, with senior faculty dismissing a junior colleague’s proposal for integrating

case-based learning The Dean asks you to stabilize the program, improve collaboration,

and demonstrate leadership capacity.