POSTER (Click on title below for full paper in pdf format)
Change in Capabilities, Change in Resources: Pulling it all Together
Eve Juliano and Jamie Hahn
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ABSTRACT:
New technologies and changes in both student expectations and learning styles continue to challenge traditional teaching methods at the UNC School of Medicine. Over the last four years, like most institutions, the medical school at UNC has seen an exponential increase in multimedia teaching resources. The Educational Technology Group (ETG) at the School of Medicine pulls these resources together into a meaningful context by providing guidance for faculty, training for students, and funding for new project ideas. Three specific developments, introduced and led by ETG, have helped integrate these electronic resources into the fabric of the medical school curriculum.
1. The creation of the Faculty Multimedia Development Lab, which encourages communication and sharing among faculty as well as multimedia professionals at the School of Medicine to develop useful and dynamic learning applications.
2. The establishment of a required first year course to provide a context for training students in the use of the available electronic resources. Also, the addition of a fourth year elective offers a means for students to develop electronic resources for the environment.
3. The initiation of a small grants program provides funding for faculty and student collaboration to develop multimedia-teaching resources.
Faculty Multimedia Development Lab - This facility supports a coordinated school-wide effort for the development and use of technology in the medical school curriculum. The Lab was built upon the existing structure of ETG, and provides a bridge between faculty and ETG's staff of multimedia professionals. This central facility helps to promote and enforce technical standards of development, and ensures that newly developed resources are integrated with the curriculum.
Required First Year Course and Fourth Year Elective Managing the Medical Computing Environment introduces the fundamentals of computer use in the medical computing environment at UNC. Students are introduced to the wide array of multimedia curricular resources available to them at the medical school and beyond. The course strives to develop students' comfort with medical computing concepts using online task-based instruction, multimedia presentations, and computer-based self-assessment. The fourth year elective enrolls a fourth year medical student to develop multimedia applications in conjunction with a faculty member and ETG staff.
Mini-Grant Program: Each year, ETG awards grants which promote the use of computers and other information management technologies to enhance the electronic resources in the curriculum of the School of Medicine. Typically these grants of up to $4000 pay the salary of a student to work on such projects. Grant writers provide the content information while ETG manages the project as well as provides space for the student to work, computer equipment, software, and technical expertise.
BENEFIT TO PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING SESSION:
All medical schools must somehow deal with the recent surge of multimedia resources available to medical students today. Our poster will give specific examples of how we, as multimedia professionals within the medical school, have tried to help integrate these resources into the curriculum. We also hope to foster discussion among conference participants about other ways to effectively manage this overwhelming task.
Eve Juliano, M,Ed,
UNC-CH School of Medicine
72 Macnider Hall
CB# 7045
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Phone: 919-966-9900
Fax: 919-966-6923
Email: eveju@med.unc.edu
CO-AUTHORS:
Jamie Hahn
UNC-CH School of Medicine
72 Macnider Hall
CB# 7045
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Phone: 919-966-9900
Fax: 919-966-6923
Email: jmhahn@med.unc.edu