Who should attend
This short course is suitable for new and early career researchers and educators who are interested in building a career in health professions education. Those teaching in both the health sciences and non-clinical disciplines are welcome.
What will you learn
On completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Design quality student-centred learning outcomes in accordance with relevant health-related professional association standards, and the appropriate qualification level.
- Identify a range of teaching formats and compare the strengths and limitations of these with respect to health education content types and learner cohorts.
- Understand the educational context of the selection and implementation of a range of learning activities and assessment types for health education.
- Plan an educational program that constructively aligns learning outcomes to teaching and learning activities, and assessments.
- Recommend an assessment regime and relevant feedback style for a specific health education program; its learning objectives, learner cohort, and remote delivery.
Program structure
Participants will experience 4 sessions, with each of these comprising;
- Short conventional lecture-style content delivery
- Interactive tutorial-style discussion and polling
- Demonstrations
- Active-learning components, including group work and creative/synthesis activities
Day 1
Session 1: Introduction
- Levels of learning
- Learning objectives
Session 2: Content delivery
- Active vs passive learning, learning theories
- Modes of delivery and engagement
- Constructive alignment
Day 2
Session 3: Assessment
- Assessment literacy in health sciences
- Authentic assessment in health sciences
- Rubrics/marking
Session 4: Feedback
- Approaches to feedback and evaluation
- Education technology for health science (e.g. AI, H5P…)
The active learning components will be based on scenarios and case studies provided or chosen by course participants and, as such, contribute to a student-directed learning experience.
This course will be supported by an online repository from which course participants will access structured learning materials and content, as well as links to resources and web applications for workshop activities that can be used in their own teaching.
