In this issue of Perspectives on Medical Education, Fletcher et??al. [1] share their experiences developing a??curriculum on organ and tissue donation in Canadian medical schools. The co-first authors are medical students who led the creation, development and dissemination of the curriculum. Their article has two parts. The authors first describe their efforts and the background to their project, laying bare the challenges and benefits of a??student-led curriculum development project. To their credit, this curriculum has been adopted at several medical schools across Canada. In the second part of their article, the students-as-educators reflect on how, in their experience, a??active involvement in curricular design is a??powerful way of integrating [CanMEDS] competenciesa?? [1].
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