Annual Meetings - Glasgow 2003
The 2003 U21 Annual Meeting of the Deans/Heads of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Rehabilitation Sciences was held on Thursday 4 and Friday 5 September 2003 at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Seventy delegates attended the meeting and the following U21 universities were represented:
- The University of Auckland
- The University of Melbourne
- The University of Birmingham
- McGill University
- The University of British Columbia
- The University of New South Wales
- The University of Edinburgh
- The University of Nottingham
- The University of Glasgow
- The University of Queensland
- The University of Hong Kong
- The University of Singapore
- Lund University, Sweden
The Programme
The two-day meeting comprised combined sessions and parallel disciplinary meetings and interdisciplinary workshops.
Selection, Building Research Capacity, Health Informatics, and Inter-professional Learning were the major themes covered in the keynote lectures, associated commentaries, group discussions and workshops.
Themes, Selective Presentations and Reports
Selection
Keynote –Medical Student Selection – Rationale, Processes,
Effectiveness
John Cairns
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Topics
- The goals of selection
- The selection process
- Selection tools – the interview
- A survey of the selection process across U21 medical schools
- Key Issues
- The number of applicants vs available places
- Discriminating between applicants
- Identifying and measuring core academic and non-academic qualities
- Establishing a correlation between admission criteria and a range of outcomes including graduation from medical school, and skill and humanity in the care of patients
Commentary – Selection
Mary Ann Lumsden
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Topic
- The Scottish Universities’ Admissions Project 2001 – 2002
Key Issues
- Defining and measuring the necessary/desirable attributes and characteristics
- for studying and practicing medicine
- Psychometric Testing
- Categorisation of applicants as ‘types’ utilising NACE and MOJAC scores
- Targeted Access
- The need for fairness
Discussion
- The need for fair and transparent processes
- The need to promote equity and diversity
- The universality of skills and attributes such as communication skills and an ethical approach
- The interface between government and education
- The need for more research on the correlation of admission criteria to student career outcome
- The potential for cross-institutional and inter-disciplinary collaboration
Building Research Capacity
Keynote – Building Research Capacity
John Savill
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Topics
- Broadening the research paradigm
- The iterative nature of clinical research
- The research-led clinician
- The Academy of Medical Sciences Working Party on Career
- Structure and Prospects for Clinical Scientists in the UK
- The tenure track clinician scientist
Key Issues
- Level of interest in research fellowship vs. available clinical academics
- The need to train and sustain clinical researchers
- Overcoming disincentives – general and specialty-specific
- The role of clinical lectureships
- The need for a clear, flexible and secure career pathway
Commentary – Building Research Capacity
S
Bruce Dowton
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Topics
- Health services research
- The interface of research with the demands of clinical service
- The macro-climate for research building
- New areas of collaboration
Key Issues
- The need for effective communication with government and the
- health sector to demonstrate the value of research
- How to promote and support research capacity
- Maximising research opportunities and the need for innovation
Discussion
- Participants identified a range of challenges, opportunities and suggestions, including the need to:
- Consolidate the student experience
- Support staff as clinicians, teachers and researchers
- Work with government/the health sector to strengthen and broaden clinical research opportunities
- Enhance the clinical academic pathway
- Suggestions for moving forward included:
- Lobby and liaise with government on the value of research
- Focus on research capacity, not just research profile
- Further develop the undergraduate intercalated research year
- Strengthen the relationship between Faculty and the health sector
- Utilise a project-based approach to research
- Link projects to clinical centres
Disciplinary Workshops – including Selection and Building Research Capacity
Medicine
Selection
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Who will be the Clinical Academics of the future?
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Dentistry
Reporting on Student Selection
Lim K Cheung
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Building Research Capacity
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Five Priority Research Areas
Eric Reynolds
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Research Proposal
Mike Morgan
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Nursing
Selection
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Nursing Notes
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Rehabilitation Sciences
Building Research Capacity
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Benchmarking
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Report of the rehabilitation sciences group [PDF 100kB]
Health Informatics
Keynote – Health Informatics – Progress in Health
Informatics in Health Education
Peter Harris
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Topics
- Progress in informatics in health education
- Definition and evolution of knowledge management
- Major spheres of influence, e.g. clinical decision support; health systems analysis; population health; knowledge resource
- Applications, e.g. telehealth; electronic health records; teaching, learning
and research, eg.
- International Virtual Medical School (IVIMEDS)
- U21 Learning Resource Catalogue (LRC3)
Key Issues
- Core elements of knowledge management, i.e. input/classification and analysis/output
- Structured vs unstructured data
- Data/text mining – factors determining success
- Knowledge representation – mapping and visualisation
- Issues re LRCs, eg. quality of data input, the need for interoperability
- Issues re IVIMEDS, eg. strategic alliances and U21; intellectual property
Commentary – Health Informatics – IVIMEDS
Ronald
Harden
This presentation comprised an overview of key aspects of the International Virtual Medical School (IVIMEDS) including the educational philosophy and major features of the programme and progress to date.
Discussion
- Issues raised by participants in relation to IVIMEDS included:
- Managing faculty’s contribution and teaching
- The need for quality control re the population of learning objects
- The impact on co-existing curricula
- Evaluation of the programme
Inter-professional Learning
Keynote - Inter-professional Learning - New
Approaches to Health Workforce Training
Peter Smith
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Topics
- Health Workforce Issues - workforce shortage; increasing complexity of technology; increasing complexity of systems
- Developments at the University of Auckland inter-professional learning programme
- Core components of the programme
- Becoming a health professional
- Maori health
- Quality and safety
Key Issues
- Quality and safety – systems failure
- The need for multidisciplinary teamwork
- The new pedagogy
- Defining inter-professional learning
- Describing inter-professional learning
Inter-professional Education: Commentary
Edwin Yen
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Topics
- Inter-professional education
- Examples at UBC
Key Issues
- The advantages of inter-professional education
- The challenges in inter-professional education
- The next steps
Discussion
- Participants focused on a range of issues including:
- Assessment of students
- Government funding of programmes
- Challenges and opportunities in relation to research
- How far to take the concept of inter-professionalism
Inter-disciplinary Workshops
Learning Resource Catalogue
Progress with U21 Resource Bank - LRC3
Tony Koppi
During the workshop, participants provided feedback on LRC3 as a catalogue of learning objects:
- Positive aspects
- Avoids duplication
- E-learning
- Cost-effective
- Altruistic
- Communication
- Adds value to courses
- Academic/personal recognition
- Challenges
- U21 – staff not involved (top down approach)
- Objects (eg. images) available from other databases
- Ease of use (interface, the password requirement)
- Keeping materials up to date
- Ownership issues need clarification
- Catalogue functions need to be effective
- Solutions
- Need endorsement from U21 managers/VCs
- Interoperable with other databases (including IVIMEDS/Ariadne/Merlot?)
- Involve cataloguers from libraries in evaluation/development
- Devise a Strategic plan
Inter-professional Learning
New opportunities for Inter-professional Learning - Inter-professional Education
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Telehealth
U21 Global Telehealth Initiative
Kendall Ho et
al
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U21 Global Telehealth Initiative Survey
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