Integrating technology to transform practice based learning

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Workstream Information

Event Aims

• To share good practice of the use of technology and Practice Based Learning projects
• To demonstrate the possible integration of technologies and its impact on Practice Based Learning
• To engage the local Health and Higher Education Institutions on the impact of the CETL4HealthNE

Target Audience

This Event is aimed at all Regulated Health and Social Care professionals and Learning technologists with an interest in the use of technologies and practice based approaches to learning.

Keynote Speakers

As Head of Innovation and Associate Dean, Dr Curran leads the Simulation and Technology-enhanced Learning Initiative (STeLI), London Deanery, University of London. This multi-million pound project embeds simulation and technology enhanced learning within postgraduate medical training and is a key pillar of a wider workforce development strategy in London.

Senior Lecturer in Medical Education, Barts and the London School of Medicine interests include assessment, feedback and faculty development.

Co-leads two Masters programmes - MA in Clinical Education and MA in Education and Technology in Clinical Practice at the Institute of Education, University of London. Dr Curran is also Associate Director of Medical Education, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals NHS Trust

Interests: Faculty development, Professionalism and Non-technical skills development, High-fidelity full-immersion simulation, Trainees in difficulty, Patient safety training and Inter-professional working.

 Malcolm Teague is NHS-HE Coordinator working at JANET(UK). The post was initially joint funded by JISC and the NHS as an act of practical collaboration instigated by the NHS-HE Forum, an informal but powerful group created in 2001 by Prof Roland Rosner at UCL. The post has more recently been identified as a core activity for JANET(UK) and is part of base funding for JANET. Malcolm is on secondment from Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust where he was Director of Information between 1994 and 2000, following various posts in NHS IT and statistics during 12 years at what was then the South Western Regional Health Authority in Bristol. His first taste of the interest and joys of working in education and research was as IT Services Manager during the initial years of the setting up of the Peninsula Medical School in Devon and Cornwall. This was a very exciting and rewarding time and it was a privilege to be involved in creating something new, working with helpful partners. It also gave the background for some of the challenges faced in his current role that has the aim of improving connectivity between the NHS and universities involved in health related education and research. And the rewarding experience with helpful partners has continued! Malcolm is the facilitator for the NHS-HE Forum meetings which continue twice per year. There is more background at www.nhs-he.org.uk.

Workstreams

Workstream 1

An ongoing project aims to explore the potential for video conferencing as a communications medium for the support of students during distant placements.  This project is currently in its 3rd phase and has raised some interesting issues regarding logistical, managerial and cultural hurdles for the implementation of technology in this context. The workshop will provide delegates with the opportunity to discuss and problem solve the hypothetical application of technologies for the enhancement or replacement of existing support systems.

The need to place firsthand accounts of people's experiences of health and social care at the centre of practice development, research, education and training agendas is widely acknowledged. The People with Experience work stream aims to involve CETL4HealthNE partners, voluntary sector groups and individuals in developing an online multimedia database of narrative resources related to individuals' experiences of health and social care in the region. The website hosting the archive includes accounts of healthcare educators' use of the narratives to support the teaching, and provides links to similar narrative websites.

The workshop will introduce the narrative archive concept and provide participants with the opportunity to consider the use of the medium to address challenges in their individual work settings.

Workstream 2

Hard Days Nights session was devised to teach final year medical/nursing (adult and mental health) and pharmacy students about communication amongst other professionals, prioritisation of care, time management and patient safety.  From module evaluation in all disciplines it was found that these skills are very difficult to teach and assess in a classroom session therefore it was felt that simulation was the best method and provided the students with a ‘safe learning environment’.  The sessions are based around a busy Accident and Emergency unit.  The 5th year medical students acted as Foundation year 1 doctor, the 3rd year nursing and final year pharmacy students acted as newly qualified practitioners.  The medical students rotated around four scenarios which contained various tasks for example, assessing a confused lady who has fell out of bed and has MRSA and explaining a medication error to a patient’s relative.  Each scenario was staffed by a student nurse; acting as a newly qualified practitioner, an ‘on call’ pharmacist (student) and a qualified ‘sister’ was present if they needed help. During the session they will also be paged to perform other tasks such as writing a prescription or looking at and ECG. This then enabled the students to prioritise which tasks they needed to do first.

The Foundation doctors could call for help at any time by paging the Registrar on call who was only available by telephone for advice.

Initial evaluation from the students felt that the simulation events had given them a better understanding of each other’s roles/responsibilities and the roles they were soon to be undertaken as qualified staff.

The CETL4HealthNE has piloted with three professional groups of healthcare students (Pharmacy, Medicine and Nursing) and some fully qualified staff the use of a card based system on a PDA which enabled students to access a wide variety of electronic medical resources (textbooks). The Dr Companion chip was purchased from Medhand (http://medhand.com/ ) and after continuing discussions with them the chip was customised to be personalised for the three professional groups that the system was used with i.e. Pharmacy companion, Dr Companion and Nurse Companion. In the initial stages of the pilot the chips could not be synchronised and were used as a stand alone resource. However, for the final stages of the pilot students could update their chips (synchronise them) with the Medhand website and get changes to certain material (e.g. NICE guidelines etc). This workshop will consider some of the issues of using such a system and the perceived usefulness of the pda and chip as a resource to support learning. As part of the workshop Mark Packer (Brighton and Sussex Medical School) will also discuss his experiences of embedding the use of pda’s and the Dr Companion chip at his institution.

Workstream 3

This project differs from event capture system implementation at other UK institutions as it represents a joint venture between Newcastle University and the CETL4HealthNE which includes five other North East universities and health care trusts.

Following a pilot the ReCap system was installed in 20 venues across the Newcastle University campus and in 6 of the partner venues for the academic year 2008/9.

The workshop will introduce the ReCap concept and provide participants with the opportunity to consider the use such technology and address some of the challenges that they might face in their individual work settings.

Development of innovative approaches to inter-professional teaching and learning to address and implement the regional drug safety agenda

This project represents a response to recent regional and national policy in which drug safety issues have been addressed as a priority clinical safety theme. The aim is to provide training opportunities and resources which facilitate medics, nurses and pharmacists in the latter stages of their undergraduate training to develop the knowledge skills and confidence to ensure that they adopt safe and effective attitudes to prescribing and medicines use as they enter the NHS workforce.

The projects overall aim is to develop a template by which inter- professional educational and training opportunities can be provided within a clinical context which will aid individuals' transition from undergraduate level through pre-registration training to qualified practioners. Practitioners who will then be expected to work in a multi-disciplinary environment and contribute to continuous attempts to improve the delivery of healthcare and minimise medication risk.

Workstream 4

Using ePortfolios and mobile technologies to support learning and assessment

This will be a participative workshop drawing on experience of using ePortfolios across a range of disciplines and specific lessons learned from CETL4HealthNE projects to evaluate the use of mobile technologies to interface with ePortfolios and logbooks. Following an overview of these, participants will have the opportunity to discuss how these technologies might be applicable in their own context and to explore the practical and pedagogic challenges and opportunities for supporting learning and assessment.

This workshop is aimed at instructors who are interested in developing successful learning activities for undergraduate health care students using portable ultrasound equipment.

The workshop will cover the following areas:

• Why scan?: an explanation of the rationale behind introducing ultrasound learning activities into a curriculum.
• Whereabouts to scan?: advice on how to create an optimal learning environment, including where to position the equipment, the instructor, the subject, the students, lighting, AV requirements, etc.
• Who to scan?: advice and information regarding the regulations concerning scanning students and other volunteers, life models, etc.
• What to scan?: advice on selecting suitable areas of the body to scan for teaching purposes for anatomy and physiology, some examples of tried and tested learning activities.
• How to scan?: learn some simple principles of ultrasound scanning, image interpretation and basic knobology to begin scanning different body regions; caution about knowing the limits of your expertise; knowing when to call in the experts.
• Care in scanning: guidance on consent and health and safety issues for both the operator and subject being scanned.