MedEdWorld invites you to join the forthcoming webinar sessions. The webinars offer an exciting opportunity to engage online with an expert and with colleagues in a live discussion on a key topic in medical education. The webinars are delivered through MedEdWorld using the Wimba platform, allowing full audio and visual communication and interaction between presenter and participants.
Listed below you will find details of eight webinars and details of how to join.
Presenter: Dr Hilliard Jason, University of Colorado, USA. Hilliard (“Hill”) Jason is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver. Among other positions, he was the Founding Director of the Division of Faculty Development of the AAMC, and he was the Editor of Education for Health: Change in Learning and Practice.
Summary: Professor Jason will encourage participants’ reflections on the negative consequences of arrogant behavior and the desirable consequences of humility in the day-to-day actions of teachers, as well as in the design of educational programs. Arrogant behavior in education includes deciding in advance what every student needs, allowing insufficient time for student questions, and engaging in activities that cause students to withhold their concerns. Humility is evident in teachers who are open to learning from their students, and in those who seek to be role models of the essence of what it means to be good scientists. Hill will encourage participants to identify ways that they can take steps to shift their own teaching behaviors toward the humility-end of the arrogance-humility continuum, if they choose.
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Presenter: Dr Erik Driessen, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Summary: In this webinar, we focus on learning from practice in the medical workplace for which self-directed assessment seeking and reflection are critical and a mentor is of great importance. First, we will discuss an example of a routine for learning from practice that mentors can use to stimulate self-directed assessment seeking and reflection. Next, we will elaborate on strategies for providing feedback. Finally, we will describe instruments that can be used for assessment and reflection: multi-source feedback and portfolios.
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Presenter: Dr John Sandars, Medical Education Unit, Leeds University, UK.
Summary: Technology and the Internet have become pervasive in modern life but what are the implications for medical education, both undergraduate and postgraduate? This webinar will explore the characteristics of Net Generation learners and also highlight their selective use of Technology and the Internet for learning. The implications for medical education will be discussed, especially the challenge of developing new competences that will be required for both learning and teaching. Now is the time to respond to the challenge if the full educational potential of Technology and the Internet is to be realised!
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Date: Postponed until further notice
Times*: TBC
Presenter: Prof. dr. Tim Dornan - Maastricht University, The Netherlands and University of Manchester, UK.
Summary: The most constant feature of medical curricula around the world is that students learn in practice settings. What is needed at the present time is a learner centred approach to helping them do so. This webinar presents the ExBL model - a description of how students can learn most effectively from interacting with patients and how teachers and curriculum leaders can best help them do so. Although ExBL was designed specifically for implementation within PBL curricula, the same principles apply to any workplace setting or type of curriculum.
Cost: GBP £20. Payment by credit card only
Register: Postponed until further notice
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Presenter: Cees van der Vleuten, Department of Educational Development and Research, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Summary: Assessment is one area of medical education where there has been substantial progression in the last 50 years. The development of new assessment procedures and solid research around these procedures have contributed considerably to our understanding of assessment. This webinar will explore assessment from a more conceptual level. From the consistencies of the research general principles of assessment will be inferred. A distinction will be made to established assessment methods and relatively recent methods. The generic principles from the established assessment technology are well grounded in research. Principles from more recent assessment technologies are either derived from preliminary research, personal observations and experiences with implementations. Each of these principles have clear practical implications and these will be discussed.
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Presenter: Dr Elizabeth Kachur, Medical Education Development, New York, USA.
Summary: Every field needs new ideas in order to retain its vitality. Similarly, creativity is important for the growth of individuals and institutions. There are personal and institutional strategies to promote new approaches to learning, teaching and administrative tasks. They can work even when difficult-to-influence environmental factors have a stifling effect. Everyone has the potential to be creative, but producing innovations requires work and courage to change. This webinar will cover the following topics:
• What is creativity? (definitions and models)
• How creative are we?
• Personal strategies for enhancing creativity and innovation (e.g., lateral thinking, seeking inspiration from outside of your field, idea inventories)
• Institutional strategies for enhancing creativity and innovation (e.g., innovation awards, culture change, personnel exchange)
Individually and jointly we can do a lot to make our work more rewarding and help move medical education forward.
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Date: 11th March 2010
Times*: 1100 EST (1600 UK/GMT) and 1500 EST (2000 UK/GMT)
Presenter: Dr Kevin Eva, McMaster University, Canada.
Summary: The goals of this workshop will be to provide authors (or potential authors) with a better understanding of what makes a good paper, where the common pitfalls lie with respect to writing and submitting papers, and what goes on ‘behind the scenes’ of the publication process. The potential benefits include an increased understanding of what it takes to publish in medical education journals specifically and the scientific literature more broadly. Participants will be asked to consider the following questions and issues: (1) What problems are commonly encountered, (2) What makes a good paper? Why do papers get accepted or rejected? (3) What happens to a paper during the review process? (4) Issues of style; (5) Ethical aspects of publication.
Cost: £20. Payment by credit card only
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Date: 16th March 2010
Time*: 0900 UK/GMT (2000 hrs Sydney, Australia)
Presenter: Prof David Powis, University of Newcastle, Australia
Summary: Traditionally, high academic ability has been the major, if not the only, criterion for selecting medical students. But a good doctor requires more than academic ability. This webinar will describe the basis of a comprehensive model for selecting medical students on a range of criteria including academic achievement, general cognitive ability, aspects of personality and interpersonal skills. A psychometrically robust procedure by which the model can be used to make selection decisions will be described, with practical suggestions of how it may be applied in practice to maximise the probability of making appropriate, fair and defensible selection decisions.
Cost: GBP £20. Payment by credit card only
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