Presenter details
After the Symposium recordings of workshops and sessions from the day will be available via this link.
Video introductions are accessible via the session title link. Please watch prior to attending.
Workshops
1. Transforming clinical assessment - Professor Claire Palermo & Ingrid D'Souza, Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences - (Zoom link)
This workshop is interactive and facilita
tes unpacking key points discussed in the keynote presentation - Transforming assessment in health education: Reflections on the evidence to create a vision for the faculty. You will be encouraged to consider the current clinical situation and asked to become innovative partners in transforming clinical assessment practices to facilitate work-ready health professions graduates.
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2. Haiku for Reflection & Connection - Margaret Simmons & Pam Harvey, Monash Rural Health - (Zoom link)
Haiku is a concise, evocative Japanese poetic form that offers opportunities for reflection. This poetic form has been incorporated into health professions education by educators such as Gair (2012), who found that haiku can help cultivate empathy. Since 2018, we have run an annual haiku workshop to encourage reflection and connection among cohorts of first-year graduate-entry medical students. The tag line for our workshop exemplifies the haiku form while summarising the session:
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A breathing space to
view artworks and pen haiku —
written photographs
Our haiku workshops held in August 2020 and September 2021 were the first to run fully online, adapting better than expected and receiving outstanding student feedback. We then ran one at the 2021 MRH Education Symposium and are now delighted to offer the same workshop to those attending the 2022 Symposium. During this Zoom workshop, you will learn the history and theory underlying haiku composition, receive haiku writing tips and prompts, write your own or collaborative haiku in breakout rooms, and, optionally, share your final pieces with others. Please consider joining us for this relaxing and fun-filled reflective writing workshop.
3. Sustainability & Health Professions Education - Presenters: Marg Simmons, David Reser, Rochelle Hine - (Zoom link)
The Lancet Commission has indicated that climate change is the "biggest global health threat of the 21st Century" and the AMA has called climate change a health emergency. The impacts of changes to our climate are felt even more immediately in rural areas through floods, fires and drought. Health professions students will be at the forefront of these changes and are keen to receive education in this space. This hybrid workshop therefore, is designed to encourage MRH educators to incorporate a sustainability lens into your teaching practices even if you are not content experts. Through interactive activities, we hope to equip you with some of the skills, knowledge and confidence to develop your own curricula so that our rural health professional students are better prepared for the impacts of a changing climate and to move forward in a more sustainable way.
Presentations
Video introductions are accessible via each blue presentation session link. Please watch the videos prior to attending.
Session 1 and Workshop 2 will be run concurrently from 12:00pm-12:45pm . Follow the links to view the videos.
Innovation in clinical teaching and assessment. Facilitated by: Eli Ristevski, Warragul - (Zoom link)
- Clinical Skill Mastery Program - Kirsty Allen - Mildura
- Psychiatry Skills Lab - Amie Gillet - Gippsland
- Medication review Rounds - Anne Leversha - Gippsland
- FCY Clinical Skills Feedback project - Lisa Hall, Gabrielle Jones, Lynne Wanafalea, Alicia Jefferis - Bendigo
Session 2 and Workshop 3 will be run concurrently from 1:15pm-2:00pm . Follow the links to view the videos.
Reaching out beyond the School. Facilitated by: Eleanor Mitchell, Bairnsdale - (Zoom link)
- Secondary School Student Program - Jenny Timmis - Mildura
- Allied Health Service-learning in rural Victoria - Pam Harvey - RNAH, Bendigo
- Collaborations to support Mental health and wellbeing - Julie Choate, Physiology
Session 3 and session 4 will be run concurrently from 2:15pm-2:45pm . Follow the links to view the videos.
Student-focused projects. Facilitated by: Marnie Connolly, Bairnsdale - (Zoom link)
- Spaced-repetition revision program - Dylan Jape, Jessie Zhou, Shane Bullock
- What Constitutes best practice quality clinical simulation learning? - Frank Dunley 5D SIPs student, Bendigo
- Teaching elective for Monash final year medical students (Y5D) Bendigo CSSC - Gabrielle Jones, Alicia Jefferis & Lynne Wanefalea - CSSC Bendigo
Training pathways. Facilitated by Cathy Haigh, Gippsland - (Zoom link)
- Career ready webinars - Training Hubs
- Re-invigorating the rural medical workforce- Rural Training Pathways Congress - Hieu Pham, Sophie Burke, Amy Allen, Regional Training Hubs
- Clinical Teaching and Education Pathway - Lisa Hall, Tammy Smith, Sophie Burke, Amy Allen
"Coming Out From Under The Doona: Educational Preparedness in a Post-COVID World" Panel Discussion
The Panel will commence at 2:55pm and run through until 3:45pm (Zoom link).