Well, guys, I think we should be thinking on Design and Development, at least according to the guide. I `hope`, I have done some work with the analysis phase. My major learning need I came up with was that our clinical students do not `reflect` on their clinical cases (at least there is no evidence of this). They just record that they have done so many clinical investigations. So, my strategy is to come up with an e-platform where students can post their reflections (like we are doing now) and share with positive critique of each other`s reflection. The good news for me is that the institution is willing to take on this and have encouraged me to develop it even after the M.Phil. I have managed to co-opt some people especially the IT people to see how it can move forward (thanks to the administration). So we are discussing how to design the whole thing and how it will be developed out. But it is hectic. Don`t forget that we have to write out an Ms-Word assignment folks as well because JP wants it badly!!
Cheers for now
Mubuuke
Cheers for now
Mubuuke
How about using the reflection on the clinical cases for some formative assessment? You could even get the students to critique each others cases and mark them on that.
ReplyDeleteWe should actually think of this as well as we know that ``Assessment drives learning``. Thanks Steve for the idea.
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One issue that needs to be thought of is the level of privacy that you would like with the system. In our course the discourse and reflection is complete public, and one can decide how public one wants the comments to be.
ReplyDeleteIn a health environment, there might be some privacy issues around patient confidentiality etc (or not). But one will need to ask that question (which is part of analysis and part of design.
ONe might do it inside a LMS, or just use blogger or wordpress and look at the accessability of the system.
I agree with Steve that assessment will play an important part in this endeavour.
Thanks for sharing you idea (and reminding colleagues about the assignment!)
Hi Mubuuke,
ReplyDeleteYour idea is very interesting!!
Are you using Blackboard in your institution? Not too sure about all the options regarding privacy on Blackboard, but to upload your course and particularly the reflection part could be done using Blackboard. Can the clinical cases not be used by using numbering system i.e. a case number or patient number that can contribute to privacy as the students are reflecting. Anyway, that's just a thought...
The other thing I was wondering about is if you're going to give the students prompting questions i.e. a format that they can use for their reflection. I'm sure there is some interesting templates available on the internet...
Very excited for your project and it is great that you have received the "buy-in" from your colleagues.
Desire, we are not yet fully using Blackboard. I can say we are partly using it. Well, definitely the students will be guided by statements as they go through their reflections. We are not leaving it open for them, so some prompts will be available. About privacy, the students are not going to identify patients by their names. Infact we are not interested in the patient name or any identifiers, rather we need the substance in the case identified. Just to give an example, recently we saw a case of a lady who was bleeding in the GIT each time she got her periods and it so happened that she had endometrial tissue in the GIT. So this is a good learning case and the students will post such a scenario and share opinions without identifying the patient.
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This is the one place where a patient could be safely 'degraded' to be 'only a number' and not feel extradited ...
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