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Purpose

Because successful change implementation depends on organizational readiness for change, the authors developed and assessed the validity of a questionnaire, based on a theoretical model of organizational readiness for change, designed to measure, specifically, a medical school’s organizational readiness for curriculum change (MORC).

Method

In 2012, a panel of medical education experts judged and adapted a preliminary MORC questionnaire through a modified Delphi procedure. The authors administered the resulting questionnaire to medical school faculty involved in curriculum change and tested the psychometric properties using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and generalizability analysis.

Results

The mean relevance score of the Delphi panel (n= 19) reached 4.2 on a five-point Likert-type scale (1= not relevant and 5= highly relevant) in the second round, meeting predefined …