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Starting Up Online Medical Education?

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This post is provided by guest blogger, Tricia Padgurskis, graduate student at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, MS in Training and Development program.

Are medical schools using quality assurance guidelines to develop their online curriculum? If you were tasked to setup a new online medical education program, would you know how to start?

In the peer-reviewed, BMC Medical Education Journal, Wasfy et. al. (2021) felt there are gaps in the quality standards of online curriculum among medical schools.  They set out to create a list of criteria for best practice in online learning in medical education.  The criteria was based on the data collected from focus groups of novice and expert faculty in online higher medical education.  In this article, the authors list important guided questions to consider when developing online education, including: governance, administration, academic council, faculty and student online training needs, organizational capacity, resources, bylaws, course delivery, course design, learning assessment and human resource needs.  The list provides a nice overview of eLearning management considerations for most curriculum in higher education. However, future application of this tool still need to be studied.

If you need to take a closer look at your college’s online curriculum quality, I highly recommend reading this guide for evaluation of online learning in medical education. 

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Wasfy, N. F., Abouzeid, E., Nasser, A. A., Ahmed, S. A., Youssry, I., Hegazy, N. N., Shehata, M. H. K., Kamal, D., Atwa, H. (2021, June 10). A guide for evaluation of online learning in medical education: A qualitative reflective analysis. BMC Medical Education. BioMed Central. https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-021-02752-2

Live Vs. Multimedia Teaching? Psychomotor Skills & PT Students

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This post is provided by guest blogger, Tricia Padgurskis, graduate student at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, MS in Training and Development program.

Should physical therapy students learn from live or multimedia demonstrations of manual therapy techniques?  Do you think multimedia instruction is sufficient for your physical therapist to learn to work on your injuries?

In the peer-reviewed, Educational Research Journal, Ivey and Parrish (2021) report the results of a live versus multimedia instruction of physical therapy students. Typically, physical therapy students need to be evaluated in the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains to properly perform orthopedic patient assessments. In this study, physical therapy students were evaluated on their psychomotor skills of patient upper and lower extremity manual assessment (Ivey & Parrish 2021). Two cohorts of students were either assigned to a live instruction or multimedia instruction with video group on these orthopedic techniques.  Interestingly, the two cohorts did not have a significant difference in skill performance. 

Does this mean that multimedia instruction is efficient enough to teach physical therapists?  Is skill level considered? Does the quality of media impact learning? To learn more, read this well researched article of instruction methods in physical therapy student psychomotor performance outcomes.

Ivey, C. J., & Parrish, A. A. (2022). Comparison of live demonstration versus multimedia instruction for

psychomotor skill development in physical therapy students. Educational Research: Theory and

Practice, 33(3), 35-46. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1366421.pdf

Teaching Medical Procedures. How Do I Apply Instructional Design?

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This post is provided by guest blogger, Tricia Padgurskis, graduate student at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, MS in Training and Development program.

When you go to a medical appointment or visit someone in the hospital, do you ever wonder whether the physician or nurse has been properly trained in central or IV-line insertion?

In the Medical Science Educator Journal (a peer-reviewed publication of the International Association of Medical Educators (IAMSE)), Cheung (2016) proposes that using instructional design provides effective and consistent training methods for medical procedures to professionals.  Like many professions, healthcare can have inconsistent training methods which may lead to patient safety concerns.  If you have studied Gagne’s nine events of instruction, you might enjoy the article’s description of a blended instructional design model in an example of how teach a chest tube insertion to staff (Cheung 2016).  Although the design was clearly described, the proposed educational model did not provide outcome results in staff/student actual skill performance.  Cheung only measured the learners’ perceptions of their training in a Likert scale pre- and  post-evaluation (Cheung 2016).  Hopefully, we will see future studies in job performance outcomes with this instructional design.

When you read this article, consider for yourself whether you might apply this instructional design to your clinical workplace!

Cheung L. (2016). Using an Instructional Design Model to Teach Medical Procedures. Medical Science Educator Journal, 26, 175–180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-016-0228-9

Is Healthcare Ready to Learn in the Metaverse?

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This post is provided by guest blogger, Tricia Padgurskis, DPT, graduate student at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, MS in Training and Development program.

With the fast pace of healthcare, clinicians and their students need to learn the latest workflows, procedures, and methods for best patient care.  In the article by Thomason (2021) in the Journal of Metaverse (a double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal), the Metaverse is introduced as a new way of providing simulation learning for clinicians.  Metaverse is a virtual realty space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment. In this article, many new virtual healthcare environments are described and include Veyond Metaverse, Studyum, OptiVu Mixed Reality, and Accuvein (Thomason, 2021).  In these spaces, students and clinicians can view, practice, and simulate patient care scenarios such as performing a surgery, interpreting imaging, and providing rehabilitation. As there are many benefits of learning, Thomason admittedly shares her ethical worries of a healthcare metaverse. 

The article facilitates the idea that it might be time to keep up with the new ways of simulation-based learning using VR and a possible Metaverse especially in healthcare. Metaverse immersion might be the next big step to safer practice and collaboration between healthcare teams.  However, do you have anxiety about wearing a VR headset?

Thomason, J. (2021). MetaHealth-How will the metaverse change health care? Journal of Metaverse, 1(1), 13–16. Retrieved May 27, 2023, from

https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/2167692