Tag: saahe

SAAHE – short oral presentations

Jul 23, 2010

in Conference, Education, Health, Research

assessment, Botswana, cognitive processing strategies, deeper cognitive processing, oral presentations, portfolio management, portfolios, saahe, teacher

Assessment challenges in UG medical education (GG Mokane) Medical school in Botswana is spiral, integrated, community based and problem-based, but the rest of the university is didactic Format, content, timing and feedback are important components of assessment Assessment in this course has an emphasis on 3 types of MCQ’s Matching Single best answer True/false (multiple…
SAAHE keynote – How to construct a medical curriculum that matters

Jul 23, 2010

in Conference, Education, Health, Research

clinical education, clinical settings, healthcare environment, healthcare learning environment, healthcare setting, herman von rossum, Professor, saahe, suitable healthcare events

Presentation by Professor Herman von Rossum. In preclinical years, you insert learning stimuli from the context of application (i.e. a clinical environment) into the educational learning environment. In clinical years, you insert education moments into the healthcare environment In constructing a curriculum, you must first determine the health needs of a society, then determine the…
SAAHE keynote – What generic skills do students bring with them?

Jul 23, 2010

in Conference, Education, Health, Research

Debbie Murdoch-Eaton, generic skills, graduate attributes, murdoch-eaton, No, Professor, saahe, stress management, teacher, time management, United Kingdom

This is the presentation from Professor Debbie Murdoch-Eaton. What impacts do we have on students life ambitions? Workers with general / transferable skills are better placed to succeed in a global knowledge economy. The skills need not be specific to the discipline The attributes are not only about economic drivers i.e. getting a job…they are…
SAAHE keynote – Improving health professions education to improve health (Bill Burdick)

Jul 23, 2010

in Conference, Education, Health, Research

bill burdick, hans rosling, health education, health outcomes, healthcare, Professor, public policy makers, Ruth Levine, saahe

I’m going to split my blog posts up according to the different sessions, just for ease of reference i.e. a few posts, rather than one very long one. Here are my notes from the first keynote of the day, from Professor Bill Burdick. If you don’t continue the momentum for change, you’re going to be…
SAAHE conference, 2010 – day 1

Jul 22, 2010

in Conference, Research

health education, medical education, research, researcher, saahe

I had made notes for the presentations I attended during the first half of the day using the Scribefire plugin for Chromium, when it crashed and I lost all my notes 🙁 I knew that there wasn’t a save button in the plugin (I didn’t have an internet connection so couldn’t publish as a draft)…
SAAHE conference, 2010

Jul 19, 2010

in Conference, PhD, Research

johannesburg, online tools, phd, research, saahe, safri, social networks, University of the Witwatersrand

I’m leaving on Wednesday to attend the 3rd SAAHE conference at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (link to programme). I’ll be presenting the results of a pilot study within our department to try and establish students’ access to computers and the internet, their experience with online tools and services, the learning strategies they employ…
Summary of PhD progress

Jul 15, 2010

in Conference, PhD, Research, Social media

article, Centre for Teaching and Learning, personal learning environments, phd, ple, research, saahe, safri, search rounds, social networks, Stellenbosch University, supervisor, survey, systematic review, writing, year research

I’m writing this after having read Christina’s post on her thoughts on the PhD process, and following a few of her links to other PhD students who are blogging their own progress. As I’m going through a little slump at the moment, I thought it might be useful to write a short post on where…
Reflective blogging assignment – finished

Jul 24, 2009

in Assignments, Social media, Students

assignment, blogging, presentation, reflection, saahe

Earlier this year I gave my final year physiotherapy students a blogging assignment as part of their Professional Ethics module. The goal of the assignment was to read a selection of articles that were relevant to coursework that had been discussed in class, to reflect on those readings, and then to post a blog entry…
Thoughts on SAAHE 2009

Jul 4, 2009

in Conference, Education

health education, higher education, saahe, twitter, university, wits

Another SAAHE has come and gone and once again, it was an absolute pleasure to attend. The conference was well organised, the presentations were interesting and informative and I think everyone was able to go home having received something of value. I’ll try and share some of my notes and reflections over the course of…
My presentation at SAAHE 2009

Jul 4, 2009

in Conference, Research, Social media

blogging, creative commons, license, microsoft, opendocument, openoffice, physiotherapy, presentation, saahe, slideshare

My presentation at SAAHE looked at the use of blogging as a tool to facilitate ethical and clinical reasoning among final year physiotherapy students in my department. The abstract is available here, and I’ve shared the presentation slides on Slideshare. You can either view it online, or download it. I’ve shared it under this Creative…
Results of a reflective blogging assignment in physiotherapy ethics

May 24, 2009

in Physiotherapy, Research, Social media

assignment, author, blog, clinical reasoning, digital native, ethics, healthcare, healthcare education, healthcare system, physiotherapy, presentation, reflection, saahe, software clients, student, university server

Earlier this year I gave my 4th year Ethics class an assignment in which they were required engage in a reflective exercise that not only encouraged interaction with others, but allowed them to see that their own perceptions of the world were different to others’. Reflection has been shown to be a significant factor in…
Blogging downturn

Apr 22, 2009

in Education, Technology

abstract, blogging, ethics, MozOpenEdCourse, presentation, reflective tool, saahe

This term has been a bit mental so far, which is why I’ve cut back considerably on the blog. Between clinical supervision, preparing for exams, extra courses and research, I’m finding it hard to keep up. It’s not permanent and once things have slowed down, I’ll get back into it. Here’s a brief update on…
SAAHE ’09: abstract for oral presentation

Mar 30, 2009

in Conference, Education, Physiotherapy, Social media

abstract, blogging, clinical reasoning, collaboration, education, ethics, healthcare, healthcare system, human rights, lecturer, online tools, physiotherapy, professional development, reflection, reflective tool, saahe, social constructivism, social software, student

Here’s the abstract I submitted for SAAHE ’09. It was submitted for consideration in the Innovations and work in progress category. Title The use of blogging as a reflective tool in physiotherapy ethics. Context The use of social software in higher education facilitates collaborative learning practices and mirrors the social constructivist principles of education by…
SAAHE conference 2009

Mar 19, 2009

in Conference, Physiotherapy

blogs, cape town, education, Google Docs, journal, peer review, physiotherapy, saahe, search engines, social media, South African Association of Health Educationalists in Cape Town, students, twitter, undergraduate research groups, wikis

I’ve noticed that I’m getting a few hits from search engines with people searching for “SAAHE”, so I can only assume that with the conference coming up in a few months time, interest is on the rise. The SAAHE conference is an annual meeting of the South African Association of Health Educationalists in Cape Town…
Curriculum and quality: keynote from SAAHE conference 2008

Nov 10, 2008

in Conference, Curriculum

grant, keynote, medical education, open university, presentation, saahe, SAAHE08

I finally got around to finishing my notes from the conference. This keynote presentation from Professor J. Grant, Director of the Centre for Education in Medicine at the Open University, is about how the quality of medical education is measured, and how that measurement could be improved. You can download my notes in the following…
Expanding the e-learning curriculum: oral presentation from SAAHE

Jul 14, 2008

in Conference, Learning, Technology

digital video, e-learning, learning tool, saahe, SAAHE08

In this oral presentation at the SAAHE conference, Dr. J. Dempers of the Division of Forensic Medicine at the University of Stellenbosch discusses the use of digital video to enhance the e-learning curriculum already in place in the Forensic Pathology Department. Currently, the department makes use of Blackboard to manage all course content besides testing,…
ICT to support physio students: my presentation at SAAHE

Jul 12, 2008

in Conference, Presentation, Research

communication technology, saahe, SAAHE08, students

Here is the full content of the presentation I gave at the SAAHE conference on 20 June, 2008. In it I discuss some of the key findings of my Masters thesis, “The use of information and communication technology as a means of providing support to physiotherapy students“. They include: These findings suggest that South African…
Assessing the assessor: keynote from SAAHE conference

Jul 11, 2008

in Conference, Curriculum

Christina Tan, competence, saahe, SAAHE08

Here are my notes from the second keynote address I attended at the SAAHE conference at the University of Stellenbosch on 20 June, 2008. Professor Christina Tan from the University of Malaya (Malaysia) discussed the importance of ensuring competence among those responsible for examining students, as well as a few interesting points on why we…
Patient safety: keynote from SAAHE conference

Jul 7, 2008

in Assessment, Conference, Learning, Teaching

Ara Tekian, medical error, patient safety, physiotherapy, Professor, saahe, SAAHE08, students

I finally got around to typing up some of my notes from the SAAHE conference. Here is the first keynote address I attended. It was a presentation by Professor Ara Tekian, the Associate Professor of Medical Education at the University of Illinois, entitled “Medical errors and patient safety: teaching and assessing at undergraduate level”. While…
To err is human: building a safer health system (free book)

Jul 5, 2008

in Health

books, free, healthcare professionals, Manitoba, National Academies Press, online book, pdf, resource, saahe, safety, south africa, students, USD

While typing up my notes from the SAAHE conference (see previous post), I came across To err is human: building a safer health system, a book that had been mentioned by one of the keynote speakers. It looks at the medical community’s historically poor track record on accepting responsibility for mistakes made by healthcare professionals…