Terence Ma currently serves as Chair of Anatomy and Biomedical Sciences at Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine. As a new medical school, he has been focused on developing the preclinical curriculum and the integration of biomedical, clinical, and health systems sciences. As a new medical school, he is taking the opportunity to build a complete competency-based model for the anatomy education (gross anatomy, microscopic anatomy, embryology, and neurosciences). He has previously been at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Touro University Nevada, California Northstate University College of Medicine, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
The focus of his work has been on the issue of how “we” know that students learned what the faculty said they would teach. His areas of interest include application of contemporary medical education approaches, assessments, evaluations, technology, and in implementation of competencies and competency standards. He has been a part of the development of competency standards nationally with IEEE and MedBiquitous, for health sciences education. Additionally, he chairs the Open Competency Framework Collaborative (OCFC) Network of the T3 Innovation Network sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, an international committee focused on competency structures in the learner-earner spectrum.