Spring Forum Meeting 2008
From Avatars to Yugma: Exploring Electronic Technologies to Teach
Facilitators: Donna Huynh and Stuart T. Haines
The following is a summary of the discussions of the participants at the ACCP Spring Forum Meeting held in Phoenix, Arizona on Sunday, April 3, 2008. This information was generated from a series of BRAINSTORMING activities regarding the potential uses, advantages, and disadvantages of various electronic technologies that could be employed during the teaching and learning process. As a brainstorming activity, the potential uses, advantages, and disadvantages outlined below may not be complete, accurate, or appropriate. Moreover, concepts are not fully described and require the reader to draw his/her own conclusion or interpretations.
The facilitators are NOT advocating for the use of these technologies and it should be recognized that any new technology requires a substantial commitment on the part of the users (instructors and students) to learn how to use the technology in an appropriate manner. While these technologies clearly have some potential benefits and may enable some forms of instruction that might not otherwise be possible, the facilitators STRONGLY recommend that technology should only be used when other methods are less likely to help the students to achieve the intended outcomes. In other words, technology should only be used when it is believed to be the best way to accomplish the instructional objectives.
Individuals who participated in the ACCP Program are free to download and use this information for whatever purpose they desire ... but if used for a scholarly or commercial endeavor, appropriate recognition of the facilitators should be given.
Avatars and Virtual Stimulations
Potential Uses
- Orient students to a patient's room in a hospital or long-term facility
- Observe mediation errors/communications
- Simulate emergeny or "code" situations
- Physical assessment of abnormalities
- Ensuring students see all types of patients, disease states
- Interprofessional scenarios (e.g. pharmacist-physician, pharmacist-nurse)
- Anatomy/visual physiology
- Structure Activity Relationships (visualize drug/receptor bindings)
- Sim-pharmacy
- Patient counseling
- Ethics (making a decision and seeing the outcomes)
- Experiencing adverse drug interactions
- Demonstrating sterile technique
- Dealing with patients with communication barriers (e.g. non-English speaking, hearing impairments)
- Virtual hospital rounds
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Potential Uses
- Developing a virtual journal club (students responsible for reviewing / critiquing assigned journals and posting summaries)
- Developing disease specific webpage
- Writing reflective journal entries for introductory or advanced practice experiences
- Reporting about student organization activities (upcoming or past events)
- Highlighting Lecture reflections (e.g. Most important points by the instructor)
- Debate controversial issues
Potential Uses
- Writing SOAP notes or care plans as a group assignment
- Responding to drug information requestions / writing drug information papers
- Group work examing case studies - one group develops the cases ...and another group "solves" the case
- Developing a peripheral "brain" or study guide - an approved "cheat sheet" that all students are allowed to use for an exam OR on clinical rotations
- Facilitating small group or committee work
- Scheduling / coordinating group work (Google Docs ... Spreadsheets)
- Facilitate faculty collaboration on developing cases or other course materials
- Student presentations (Google Docs ... Powerpoint)
- Patient information leaflets
- Drug information monographs
- Setting up a budget for a community pharmacy (Google Docs .... Spreadsheet function)
- Developing policies and procedures for organization or business
- Developing a curriculum vitae or resume
- Writing a scientific abstract or poster
- Creating and facilitating the activities of interprofessional working teams
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Potential Uses
- Creating a drug information discussion board and letting students from different practice sites answer them
- Discuss patient cases among several groups
- Post FAQs and other course mechanics (e.g. virtual office hours, daily updates)
- Ethics debates
- Journal club
- Reflection activities (student answer a question from reading and have other students respond)
- Stimulated patient interview (give minimal information related to a patient case and students need to post questions to ask patient)
- Preparation for job/residency interviews
- Cross campus student interactions on assignments
- Discussion of group projects
- Facilitate communication with students after they leave practice site
- Problem based learning
- Student moderating "online" discussion (e.g., post student's questions and let students answer them)
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Potential Uses
- Collection of useful documents (and multimedia?) to support employment or residency applications
- Student Portfolios - track assignments completed during a specific experiential rotation or during entire series of advanced practice rotations
- Facilitate communication between students and their mentors and/or advisors throughout the learning process
- Repository of faculty-student evaluations for the entire course of student's learning experiences in school
- Residency portfolios
- Tenure and promotion portfolios for faculty
- Accreditation documents for schools and universities
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Potential Uses
- Student presentations / faculty lectures
- Communicate with students at distant sites / at home / from a remote location (e.g. while attending a conference)
- Development activities for preceptors
- Enables committee / faculty interactions at distant sites / from a remote location
- Lead small group discussions
- Lead discussions with students at remote practice locations (e.g. during APPEs)
- Office hours for faculty
- Online exam review sessions (pre-exam or post-exam debriefing)
- Mentoring meeting with students, faculty, mentoring when you can't meet face-to-face
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