Innovative use of Web & IT in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Kathryn Kolo, Project Officer - Resource Development, Centre
for Medical and Health Sciences Education, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and
Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton VIC 3800.
Email: Kathryn.Kolol@med.monash.edu.au
Bradley Frew, WebCT and Publications Developer, Centre for Medical
and Health Sciences Education, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences,
Monash University, Clayton VIC 3800.
Email: Brad.Frew@med.monash.edu.au
Keywords
Web and IT, Education, WebCT, Curriculum Database, E-Portfolio, Online Clinical Skills Tutorials.
Poster Abstract
The Monash University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health
Sciences strongly supports the use of Web and IT in providing innovative materials
for its courses.
There is a large Web Team that manages the Faculty’s web pages and provides
support to staff of the Faculty when developing Web based projects. There
is also extensive support from outside the faculty from the university’s IT
services.
The aim of this poster is to showcase some of the interesting and exciting projects which the faculty has been developing with the support of these people. These include:
- The use of WebCT - WebCT is a third party program Monash University adopted across all Faculties two years ago. It has made the Faculty rethink it’s delivery of materials online and this is discussed.
- Online Clinical Skills Tutorials - The MBBS course is conducted on numerous sites across the state with great variation in teaching the basic clinical skills required by doctors. These online tutorials help the students access standardised teaching in these core skills and supplement their clinical learning. The objectives of these tutorials, and the way in which they were delivered, are the subject of further exploration in this poster.
- The Curriculum Database Project - Is part of the restructure of the MBBS curriculum into an integrated curriculum. A new way of developing and tracking curriculum development was needed that was not available through existing software products. The aim of the project is for administrative staff to have a dynamic record keeping and reporting system of the Curriculum, and for students and staff to have readily available online access to their relevant course information. The poster delves into how this is being developed and the further aims of the project.
- E-Portfolio - This was developed as part of the Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education to enable participants to record written reflections on their clinical teaching practices, retrieve and collate reflections for assessment submission, gain access to peers’ work, as well as provide and receive feedback. The development process and the structure of the site is further discussed in the poster.