Trends & Approaches to Medical Education in the Digital AgeNatalie LaffertyGalway Area Medical Educators Session – 7 March 2013

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Stanford give all medical students an iPad

Virtual learning environments (VLE)

Students want face to face teaching

Clinical Skills

Lectures

Ward basedteaching

Small group teaching Dissection

Tutorials

Workshops

PBL

eLearning

Integrating eLearning

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VLE primarily just supporting transmission of information?

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The Challenge:

Facilitate active learning

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Virtual patients and cases with feedback

Induction modules

Peer assessment question bank

The VLE - a walled garden

Outside the garden wall is a ‘virtual’ medical school

Learning …Any time, any place, any where …

No longer restricted to libraries & formal learning

You Tube

Vimeo

iTunes U

Repositories

• HEAL• Meded Portal

• Xpert

MOOCs

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Beyond the VLE is alsoa global learning network

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Text

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Students connecting with other students & doctors

“Using Web 2.0 technologies leads to a new sense of communities of interest and networks and also a clear notion of boundaries in web space - for example personal space, group space and publishing space.” JISC 2009

Web 2.0 tools for social learning

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Blogs

Reflection/Portfolio

Reviews of research

News & views

Formative assessment

Just-in-time learning

Teaching – guide on the

side

Patient experiences

Supporting communities

Audience Engagement - Comments

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“I simply blog as a way to keep track of the new developments in medicine that are relevant to my practice and patients. The blog is a digital notebook and an archive accessible from any place and device with an internet connection.”

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Signposts to learning

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Social learning

To support learning?

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Free Open Access Meducation #FOAMed

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But …I’m not a computer

I’m a technophobe!!!

Teachers are not necessarily confident in using technology or aware of how to use it to enhance teaching and learning … they have staff development needs

Sandars & Schroter 2007; JISC 2009; Morris & McKimm 2009

Students have high engagement with sites such as Facebook & YouTube but less understanding of, and engagement with other tools that can support their learning …

They also have training needsSandars & Schroter 2007; JISC 2009; Chu et al 2010

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JISC 2009 … Students should play a role in working with teachers to develop teaching and learning

delivery by working in partnership with them.

(Siemens 2005; Sandars 2009)

Eight Domains of Good Professional Practice

UK GMC - Tomorrow’s Doctors

Outcome

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• The doctor as scholar and scientist

Outcome

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• The doctor as practitioner

Outcome

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• The doctor as professional

Tomorrow’s Teachers

The doctor as a professional

The graduate will be able to behave according to ethical and legal principles.

• Students need to be made aware of issues surrounding the professional use of social media and technology

The doctor as a professional

Reflect, learn and teach others

(a) Acquire, assess, apply and integrate new knowledge, learn to adapt to changing circumstances and ensure that patients receive the highest level of professional care.

The doctor as a professional

Reflect, learn and teach others

(b) Establish the foundations for lifelong learning and continuing professional development, including a professional development portfolio containing reflections, achievements and learning needs.

The doctor as a professional

Reflect, learn and teach others

(f) Function effectively as a mentor and teacher including contributing to the appraisal, assessment and review of colleagues, giving effective feedback, and taking advantage of opportunities to develop these skills.

iBooks

“Issues of professionalism, responsibility for content,

interprofessional working and effective collaboration have all

come to the fore for the group. Overall, we firmly believe

that developing student-led

e-learning and online professionalism can provide an avenue

through which young professionals can develop lifelong

learning skills, experience continuing professional

development and learn and work in a professional

community.”

Students’ reflections

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Outcomes

• A community of interest and learning practice is emerging

• Teaching staff becoming more confident in using technology to support their teaching

• Sharing best practice

• Increasing student engagement

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Don’t lose focus … Don’t be dazzled by the technology

Start with how you want to teach …Not with technology

One size doesn’t fit all

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Develop a teaching & learning toolkit

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Increasingly connected …Learning now in our hands

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Dip your toe in the water ...

Explore and learn together

Natalie LaffertySchool of Medicine, University of DundeeEmail: n.t.lafferty@dundee.ac.uk Twitter: @nlafferty

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