Session 1.1: Circles of partnership: working with students and academics to promote global health citizenship through international education collaborations
Health
Dr Julie Wintrup and Dr Juliette Truman University of Southampton
This workshop will do three things:
- Research into developing global health citizens through international exchanges (Wintrup et al 2015) internationally-focused classroom activities and experiences of students as co-researchers will be presented and debated in light of UK health service needs and expectations.
- Led by students, the “circles of partnership” exercise (Wintrup et al 2015: 39) will be carried out in small groups to experiment with approaches to preparing students host organisations visitors groups and individuals for international exchanges and to consider the ethical concepts of care hospitality and reciprocity.
- Partners and collaborators – students, academics and community health providers - in Sweden and Zambia will participate in discussion by Skype and explain how ‘the international classroom’ is becoming a reality with all its possibilities challenges and unique teachable moments.
Participants will be given copies of the HEA report “Purposeful partnerships and practices: an international collaboration in global health” (Wintrup et al 2015) and invited to join our new growing network of international health collaborators.
Session 1.2: Fostering professional development among UK dental undergraduates with a dental scrubs ceremony: findings of a pilot initiative
Medicine and Dentistry
Dr Patricia Neville University of Bristol
This conference paper documents a pilot initiative at a UK Dental School to strengthen its informal curriculum on professionalism with the introduction of a scrubs ceremony for its second year students. The Scrubs ceremony was inspired by the White Coat ceremonies that medical students have in North America universities. This event marks the students’ first step in their professional and clinical development as they transition from pre-clinical to clinical stage of their studies with the public presentation of dental scrubs to the student cohort and the recitation of a pledge of conduct. An evaluation of this initiative and its impact on students and faculty staff’s perception of dental professionalism will be presented and discussed.
Session 1.3: Engaging students in lectures using appropriate technologies: interactive apps and online quizzes using smart phones
Nursing and Midwifery
Dr Sharon Edwards Buckinghamshire New University
The aims of the session are:
- demonstrate the value of including interactive apps and online quizzes with smart phones in the lecture can engage students in the learning process;
- show the benefits of using online quizzes with smart phones to complement and support learning and teaching;
- an increase in understanding of how the use of such technologies can help to meet the individual needs of learners and/or learner groups.
Session 1.4: Innovation in Student Engagement in Health and Social Care
Social Work and Social Policy
Mr Jasper Shotts and Mr Dan Derricott University of Lincoln
Session 1.5: Our Experiences of using Forum Theatre to facilitate the development of communication skills in student nurses
Nursing and Midwifery
Alan Baillie Helen Hadden Jenny Wade and Karl Shone Buckinghamshire New University
This workshop will briefly discuss the history and applications of forum theatre with close reference to Augusto Boal and Boalian Theatre (Boal 1995) as many of the techniques and systems used in drama of this kind have been strongly influenced by Boal’s work. The delegates will observe a presentation that we created for World Mental Health Day (2015) performed to an audience of students tutors service users and education leads for two NHS trusts that will be discussed in the context of Mezirow’s (2011) theories of Transformative Learning.
