Health Professions Educators join our creation of an OLC Special Interest Group (SIG) for Instructional Technology in Health Professions Education. This session promotes the multi-institutional collaboration required for a “community of practice” focused on evidence-based use of instructional technology in health professions education. Our SIG aims to share best practices, lessons-learned and research to a broader HP audience.
Engage colleagues in Health Professions
Join us in furthering cross-disciplinary discussions regarding the use of instructional technology in Health Professions Education. We initiated this work at the first ever 2017 OLC Collaborate at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and solicited broader engagement during the 2017 OLC Accelerate conference. In this 2018 session, panelists from UNMC, GWU and the Mayo Clinic explore motivators, mechanisms and opportunities for multi-institutional collaboration and share tangible take-aways and learner outcomes related to the use of instructional technology, community building, inter-professional education, and inter-institutional resource sharing.
Our goal for this session is to continue to build a “community of practice” focused on future use of instructional technology in health professions education, to foster inter-professional education collaborations across institutions, to share best practices, lessons-learned and educational research. We will plan a SIG session at OLC Innovate 2019 presenting spotlight presentations of educational research abstracts and potential for developing a compendium of best practices for instructional technology in health science education.
The session will be structured as follows:
Panel discussion (15 mins): Panelists will share how inter-disciplinary discussions and project work have continued following the 2017 UNMC Collaborate and including the formation of a Special Interest Group (SIG). Action steps for future mult-institutional collaborations will be shared
Plenary discussion (20 mins): Using an live polling system, we will solicit input from the audience to lead a discussion on SIG formation and address adoption of instructional technologies in health professions education. We will discuss what can be gained from multi-institutional collaborations, and how we might continue to broaden the community of scholars and practitioners focused on promoting evidence-based uptake of instructional technologies to support health professions education. An action plan with next steps and initial deliverables will be drafted and “endorsed”.
Panel wrap-up (10 mins): Panelists will “wrap up” the plenary discussion with the next steps for formalizing SIG collaboration among institutions and meeting at OLC Accelerate 2019.