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Annual Meetings - Monterrey 2010

Vice-President of the School of Biotechnology and Health and Dean of Medicine, Dr. Martin Hernández from Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico, was proud to host the 10th annual U21 Health Sciences meeting during the week of September 27th to October 1st. Nearly 100 faculty and students from medicine, dentistry, nursing, physical therapy, and rehabilitation sciences from fifteen universities across the U21 network attended the meeting. The University of Connecticut and the University of Amsterdam, both newly integrated to Universitas 21, were represented in the meeting.

Major themes for the morning multidisciplinary sessions included faculty development, education of health professionals for the new century, quality healthcare and patient safety, globalization of medical education and situational leadership.

The various discipline groups convened separately over one afternoon. The discipline group meetings provided colleagues with an opportunity to explore specific issues and follow up on matters introduced during the multidisciplinary segment of the annual meeting. U21 Pharmacy did not attend the meeting in Monterrey.

Another afternoon was dedicated to a faculty development exercise in order to reflect on what should modern and future faculty education development look like and how will medical education change be created and evaluated.

Associated events included a workshop on the U21 United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UN MDG) initiative and a nursing doctoral student forum.

Outcomes of the annual meeting and associated events include new initiatives and ongoing development of current projects.

The following U21 universities were represented:

U21 Health Science Delegates

View the attendee list [PDF 28.1kB]

 

 

UN MDG Workshop – 27-28 September 2010

OVERVIEW

After a successful UN MDG workshop In Hong Kong in February this year, Dr. Martín Hernández Torre, Dean of the School of Biotechnology and Health of Tecnológico de Monterrey, hosted the two-day U21 UN MDG workshop held on 27th and 28th September 2010.
View the UN MDGs [PDF 38 kB]

More than fifty delegates from medicine, dentistry, nursing and health and rehabilitation sciences attended the workshop convened by the U21 Health Sciences UN MDG Steering Committee and led by Kendall Ho from the University of British Columbia.

U21 universities represented at the workshop included Korea, Singapore, Lund, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Birmingham, Nottingham, British Columbia, Melbourne, Queensland and Hong Kong.
View the list of participants [PDF 25 kB]

Major themes included maternal mortality in Mexico; review of progress; current engagement strategies with presentations on UN MDG faculty and student-led initiatives at the Universities of Queensland, Melbourne and Tecnológico de Monterrey; examples of UN MDG implementation in U21 universities; small group discussions on engagement, partnerships, publications and sustainability, and next steps and deliverables for 2011.

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MONDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER 2010

1. INTRODUCING THE UN MDG WORKSHOP

UN MDG Workshop: U21 Health Sciences Meeting in Monterrey
Kendall Ho (University of British Columbia)
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The UN MDG initiative has been an ongoing project in U21 over the last four years. In 2010, it is ten years to the UN MDG declaration and only five years from the actual time to hitting the target. This underpins the importance of human development globally. How it is possible, as academic faculty members and students, to contribute to these global goals? How does the U21 Health Sciences group continue to contribute to the goals? Kendall Ho presented the six objectives of the two-day UN MDG workshop, as well as the programme.

Objectives of the workshop:

2. KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Maternal mortality in Mexico
Karla Pacheco (National Project Leader, Maternal Care Quality: a Life Expectancy, General Direction for Health Quality and Education)
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The presentation focused on three axes: maternal mortality in Mexico, the comprehensive Quality Health System SICALIDAD and the CAMEV programme (Maternal Care Quality: a Life Expectancy). In 2010, maternal mortality ratios in Mexico, at national level, only achieve 55.3% of the UNMDGs with variations from -54% to 71%. The programme CAMEV is part of the technical quality and patient safety component of the comprehensive quality health system that has been put in place in Mexico in recent years. The objective of the programme is to prevent and reduce maternal mortality by integrating models to improve the quality of obstetric care into the heath facilities management. CAMEV is one of the many initiatives dedicated to maternal care that have been put in place in Mexico, thus contributing to the achievement of the UN MDG.

3. ACTIVITY REPORTS

U21 UN MDG Workshop, Hong Kong University, February 1 & 2, 2010
Kendall Ho (University of British Columbia)
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The outcomes of the workshop in Hong Kong included progress on the U21 UN MDG module, strategies for strengthening student involvement and leadership, garnering broad-based interprofessional and institutional involvement and international partnership building. At the conclusion of the workshop, a very comprehensive list of 'next steps' was drawn up, following feedback by delegates working in small groups and as a general audience. It was acknowledged that not all of the suggestions could be accomplished in the short term and delegates recognised that some priorities should have been defined.
The core of the UN MDG initiative is to develop educational materials that different universities with different contexts can share together and stimulate dialogue. How does the U21 UN MDG group want to move forward on the roadmap that was established?

63rd Annual UN DPI/NGO Conference “Advance Global Health: achieve the UNMDGs”
Gillian Webb (The University of Melbourne)

The conference was held in Melbourne in August 2010 and congregated all the aid agencies around the world, gathering more than 1,600 delegates from 70 countries with a quarter of the delegates under the age of 25. Discussions focused around the role of the civil society and grass-root work at the community level. A communicate came out of the meeting as it was only three weeks before the UN MDG meeting in New York. Participants also agreed on the need to alleviate debt so that countries can move forward. It was noticed that the meeting didn´t cover key issues such as mental health and disabilities.

UNITA Conference
Niv Patil (Hong Kong University)
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The meeting that was held in the framework of the Shanghai expo was sponsored by the industry and focused on the corporate social responsibility towards UN MDGs. As politicians have not been successful, there is a move from the UN to see what the private sector can do towards achieving the UN MDGs. Corporate fundraising and private donations can make a difference to make some projects work. The UN is trying to get a list of all the websites related to UN MDGs to get an overall view of what is being done. After the conference, UNITA expressed some interest in collaborating with U21 Health Sciences.

Report from the Student Advisory Committee
Alicia Veasey (The University of Queensland) and Sylvia Martínez (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
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The Student Advisory Committee began at the end of 2008 as a result of the U21 Health Science meeting in Virginia. It started with four universities and extended to six during the UN MDG workshop in Hong Kong. The aim is to make the U21 UN MDG Project student driven with faculty support. Students have been working a lot on student manuals: one for students with general information on the MDGs and one focused on leadership for students willing to get involved and implement UN MDGs projects in their universities. The main goals of the Student Advisory Committee for the period 2010/2011 are to increase student participation, further develop the legacy plan, work on Facebook to increase student involvement and consolidate the UNMDG 4 Health website.

The U21 UN MDG Educator’s Guide to Developing an UNMDG Course
Nelson Shen (University of British Columbia)
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View the Educator´s Guide [PDF 139 kB]

The purpose of the guide is to help identify and share best practices on how to teach and assess UN MDG courses across cultures and identify best practices that are context specific. It focuses on how to present educators with a framework and background information to inform curriculum development, how to best utilize developed resources and how to build inventory of resources to use for future iterations of courses. Upon completion of the course, students would be able to achieve attitudinal, knowledge and skills objectives. The guide also provides educators with a list of potential course topics that could be covered in the UN MDG course, as well as materials and resources and evaluation tools. The guide is still a working document that needs to be populated.

If you were to implement an UN MDG education in your school, what are some of the positives, minuses and interesting aspects you would find in the existing material?
Group discussion, PMI analysis

Positive developments

Minuses – challenges and issues

Interesting areas to consider

4. STUDENT LED DISCUSSION

For the first time, it was decided to have one full afternoon led by students. Students from the Universities of Melbourne, Queensland, British Columbia and Tecnológico de Monterrey led discussion on increasing student participation and interprofessional students, strengthening linkage with faculty members and building legacy and continuity.

Student engagement at the University of Melbourne
Paul Kopanidis (The University of Melbourne)
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Global Health has a prominent role at the University of Melbourne, particularly through the Nossal Institute of Global Health whose three core areas are research, education and development assistance. Their work includes disease prevention and health promotion, health system strengthening, education, tropical health and infectious disease and inclusive developmental practices. They provide opportunities for students through lecture and university subject. Within the current medical and physiotherapy curriculum there is opportunity to engage in global health through overseas electives. There are also student group initiatives through student societies and the Victorian Student Aid Program that also engage in global health initiatives. The objective of the presentation is to suggest a student global health program that provides students with direction through mentorship and networks.

The UQ UN MDG project
Alicia Veasey (The University of Queensland)
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Health occupies centre stage in the Millennium Development Goals. The UQ School of Medicine acknowledges that understanding aspects of global health and development is important for all medical graduates. The UQ-UNMDG Project is a joint venture of the UQ School of Medicine and the UQ Medical Society (UQMS) that brings a substantial focus on Global Health to all students of the UQ Medical Program and has a dual focus on Developing World Health and Australian Indigenous Health. The aim is to deliver teaching and training, assist medical students to have relevant clinical experiences, offer extracurricular activities and raise awareness of these issues. The role of the convenor is crucial to the continuity of the project. A detailed handover process was set up towards the end of the first year of the project and an annually elected student UQ-UNMDG subcommittee was established.

Working with the UN MDG at Tecnológico de Monterrey
Sylvia Martínez (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
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Strategies at Tecnológico de Monterrey's School of Medicine include students working through UN MDG study modules integrated into the curriculum, and case studies as an educational aid to highlight the social and economic aspects of health. Throughout the programme, students are provided with overseas and local training opportunities in a wide network of clinics and hospitals. Student feedback has been very positive and the UN MDG strategy is now enhanced by both faculty and student led initiatives. In April 2010, the Medical Student Association of Tecnológico de Monterrey School of Medicine organized the first Global Health Conference held in Latin America and organized by students. It gathered more than 2700 medical students from a variety of universities around the country and focused on some key issues in the global field such as poverty and health disparities, UN MDG, infectious diseases, malnutrition, maternal health and E-Health and telemedicine.

How can we engage more interprofessional students? How can we increase linkage between students and faculty? How can we develop a legacy plan?
Group discussion

Engaging interprofessional students

Increasing linkage between students and faculty

Developing a legacy plan
In order to ensure students ongoing participation in the project, it is essential to have a strong Student Steering Committee that communicates regularly and with interprofessional representation. It was suggested to write rules of engagement and establish succession plans for the positions inside the Committee. Existing bodies within the universities can also be used as a tool to engage students, as well as ambassadors of the faculty or retired professors. A recommendation was also to build a database of projects that have been successful in some U21 universities to serve as examples to other universities. The University of Queensland and Tecnológico de Monterrey models were particularly highlighted for their project leader succession plan.

 

TUESDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER 2010

1. IMPLEMENTING UN MDG: EXAMPLES

Fudan UN MDG Summer School Experience
Nelson Shen (The University of British Columbia)
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The first Summer School Program “Achieving MDGs for Global Health” was held from 18 to 30 July 2010 in Fudan University. The program was a multidisciplinary collaborative training through lectures, group work, field visits and case analysis reports, which aim was to give an introduction on the development of MDGs and the monitoring of their progress on a global level. 27 students from China, Colombia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, United States and Vietnam attended the summer school and receive a certificate of completion from the School of Public Health of Fudan University. An evaluation tool was established and showed that all of the students thought the educational experience met their expectations and recognized their responsibility of achieving UN MDGs by doing research, health promotion and achieving global partnerships.

Curriculum Development in UQ to integrate the UN MDGs
Alicia Veasey (The University of Queensland)
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At the University of Queensland, UN MDGs are now successfully integrated into the learning objectives as conceptual teaching, practical preparation, clinical experiences and extra-curricular activities. During their first year of studies, students need to complete a one-month elective block and produce a critical reflection assessment on their experience. Also in year one, students assist to five lectures delivered by a number of distinguished individuals, who demonstrate how one can make a positive contribution to an urban, developing world, rural or Indigenous community. The aim of the lectures is to increase awareness of global issues, as well as inspire students to broaden their horizons and attitudes in preparation for their elective. A variety of learning resources are available for students on the UN MDG project website, in collaboration with the School of Population Health. As an important measure of the effectiveness of curriculum-related and extracurricular aspects of the UQ-UNMDG Project, a 5-year prospective study that measures the change of students’ subjective and objective understanding of global health has been put in place.

Case studies in action
Niv Patil (Hong Kong University) and Gillian Webb (The University of Melbourne)

One of the major activities of the Hong Kong workshop in February 2010 was to write cases, and the group managed to put together eight cases. All cases follow the same template and are presented in the same way. One of the challenges is to diversify the cases as most of them are about pediatrics. Important issues such as mental health or disability, which are not included in the UN MDGs, could also be used for cases. Members are encouraged to write more cases as they are a good strategy to make students learn by curiosity. The format followed to write a case doesn´t really matter as long as the learning objective is achieved. Once cases are completed, they will be published as a resource on the UN MDG 4 Health website.

Current State of UNMDG Educational Research
Nelson Shen (The University of British Columbia)
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View the UN MDG/Global Health Education Research Resource document [PDF 134 kB]

Literature on the use and evaluation of United Nations Millennium Develop Goals in education is sparse. However, UN MDG-specific and UN MDG-themed education is occurring from across the entire education system under the banner of ‘global health,’ a fast growing topic since the year 2000. A review of educational evaluation literature in this area reveals that the field is new and diverse. Three divergent streams emerged within this literature that the UBC eHealth Strategy office labelled Program Evaluation, Pedagogical Evaluation, and Critical, or Problematizing, Evaluation. Literature review shows that the field of global health education is, at present, lacking cohesion and a shared research direction. Consequently, the UN MDG’s have a strong potential to direct and structure future research and education in this area.

2. WAY FORWARD: WHAT IS NEEDED

Building content, engaging other schools to participate, fostering educational research and evaluation
Group discussion
View the summary table [PDF 16.2 kB]

Building content (cases, web, videos): usage and increase
The objective is to complete the contents and place them on the web as a repository for accessibility for multiple uses. Among identified actions, it was suggested to form a subcommittee to develop the web strategy, define the audience and also come with a new design that would enable to post multimedia content such as podcasts or videos. The Educator´s guide and students guide should also be integrated as part of the web once they have been completed, as well as the case studies once they get through a quality assurance process. The website should also include a discussion board for students and a section to post and socialize an elective database that students can search.

Engaging health sciences schools: deepening and increase

Educational research and evaluation
Suggested actions included writing a U21 position paper to stimulate discussion around UN MDG education, carrying out a more robust curriculum survey and a study of student attitudes towards the UN MDGs (what has been done in UQ as an example).

3. BUILDING MOMENTUM

Partnerships, publications, conferences, sustainability
Group discussion

Partnerships
Suggestions included carrying out a survey in each institution to know their affiliations with NGOs and seek coloration according to their credibility and size. Potential identified partners were the UN (especially through UNITA), the WHO, the AMEWPR (Association for Medical Education in the Western Pacific Region) that will held a meeting in Seoul in June 2011 and the Aga Khan Foundation (through Nottingham).

Publications, conferences and abstracts

Sustainability
Publications are a good way to sustain the efforts of the initiative. A strategic budgeting over a specific period of time would also be useful to identify necessary funding towards sustainability, such as the recruitment of a project officer to give appropriate follow up or specific sponsorship for students/trainees to undertake research on UN MDG related activities.

4. NEXT STEPS

The last segment of the workshop was convened by Kendall Ho and involved an overview of all of the feedback / suggestions gleaned over the two days, relating to UN MDG education and research, engagement and involvement of students and faculty and inter-institutional / international partnerships.

Broadly defined, the outcomes of the workshop in Monterrey included:

  1. Develop a budget to present to the U21 Health Sciences Executive for financial support to launch the activities in the upcoming year
  2. Complete the content (case studies, student guides and education guides)
  3. Redesign and launch a web strategy
  4. Get commitment from several U21 schools to use some of the cases, and prepare an evaluation tool to do a preliminary evaluation
  5. Set up a series of discussion papers on UN MDG education, with literature review and surveys
  6. Establish awards for students’ involvement during 2011 workshop in Seoul: travel award, project award, and video award

The U21 UN MDG Education Steering Committee will meet and look at the range of outcomes from this workshop, and prioritise work packages over the coming months. Progress will be reported on at the next U21 Health Sciences UN MDG workshop, to be held on 25–27 September 2011 in Seoul, and at the upcoming U21 Health Sciences annual meeting at Korea University (28-30 September 2011).

 

 

Nursing Doctoral Student Forum – 28 September 2010

A fourth nursing doctoral student forum led by Professor Desley Hegney from the National University of Singapore was held prior to the annual meeting. Doctoral students came from Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia (Queensland) and the United Kingdom (Nottingham).

View the participant list [PDF 14.4 kB]

The one-day forum comprised two master classes on “The PhD journey” and “Getting Published” presented by Associate Professor Christine Neville from the University of Queensland and Professor Desley Hegney from the National University of Singapore. Both presentations highlighted international interdisciplinary research collaboration. Participating doctoral students were given the opportunity to present on their research topics, to discuss their work, and to network with fellow doctoral students and nursing colleagues within an international context. The workshop enabled a stimulating and productive dialogue between senior nursing faculty and fellow doctoral students.

View the U21 nursing doctoral student forum programme [PDF 19.5 kB]

View the participants' abstracts [PDF 29.4 KB]

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The Core Meeting Programme – 29 September-1 October 2010

The multidisciplinary segment of the 2010 meeting took place over three mornings (29, 30 September and 1 October).

Major themes and keynote presentations focused on faculty development, education of health professionals for the new century, quality healthcare and patient safety, globalization of medical education and situational leadership. The programme also included a report on the proceedings and outcomes arising from the UN MDG workshop.

The U21 Health Sciences Executive met on the second day of the meeting.

The annual meeting concluded with a series of brief presentations, including reports from each of the discipline groups and the Executive. A presentation introducing participants to next year's meeting at Korea University was provided by host Prof. JP Park.

View the core meeting programme [PDF 78kB]

 

CORE MEETING PROGRAMME - DAY 1 (29 September 2010)

Introductory speech
U21: Tecnológico de Monterrey Educational Model 2010 (Martín Hernández Torre) [PDF 5.04 MB]

Keynote speech
Introduction to the Faculty Development Exercise: Why? What? And How? (Nancy Searle) [PDF 1.15 MB]

Plenary session
A century after Flexner

The Commission on education of health professionals for the 21st century was launched in January, 2010. This independent initiative, led by a diverse group of 20 commissioners from around the world, adopted a global perspective seeking to advance health by recommending instructional and institutional innovations to nurture a new generation of health professionals who would be best equipped to address present and future health challenges. The group pursued research, undertook deliberations, and promoted consultations during 1 year. The aim was to develop a fresh vision with practical recommendations of specific actions that might catalyse steps towards the transformation of health professional education in all countries, both rich and poor. The work of the Commission is intended to mark the centennial of the 1910 Flexner report, which has powerfully shaped medical education throughout the world.

View the he Commission report:
Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world [PDF 1.65 MB]

UN Millennium Development Goal Initiative
Report on the UN MDG workshop (Kendall Ho and Manuel Pérez) [PDF 4.24 MB]

 

CORE MEETING PROGRAMME - DAY 2 (30 September 2010)

Plenary Session
Quality and Safety in Healthcare     

Plenary Session
Situational Leadership: Choices and Responsibilities

Reflections on the 10 years of U21 Health Sciences
View the presentation (Niv Patil) [PDF 1.67 MB]

U21 Health Sciences Executive Committee meeting
View the notes of the meeting [PDF 18.3 kB]

 

CORE MEETING PROGRAMME - DAY 3 (1 October 2010)

Keynote Speech
Faculty Development: Beyond Flexner (Stephen Greenberg) [PDF 6.76 MB]

Keynote Speech
Recommendations Concerning Faculty Development from the U21 Health Sciences Group 2010 (Nancy Searle) [PDF 441 kB]

Overview of meeting by 2010 host University
U21 Health Sciences meeting 2010 (Martín Hernández) [PDF 795 kB]

2011 host university presentation
U21 Health Sciences meeting 2011 in Seoul, Korea (Jung Yul Park) [PDF 8.02 MB]

 

 

The Discipline Group Meetings – 30 September 2010

Following on from the multidisciplinary programme, the discipline groups convened separately over one afternoon to discuss a range of issues. Meeting programmes included both discipline-specific and multidisciplinary issues, as well as follow up on a range of matters including previously identified projects, proposed initiatives, and key meeting themes.

 

MEDICINE

The U21 medicine group's meeting comprised presentations and discussion on a range of topics including student electives and exchange; global health and the 100 years of the Flexner report and the challenges for the 21st century such as creating a horizontal learning community and building capacity for the different regions of the world. Tim Garson, from the University of Virginia also joined the meeting through videoconference to present and discuss about Grand-Aides, a programme that uses protocols by telephone and home visit to provide simple primary care under close supervision by a professional.

View the U21 Medicine meeting agenda [PDF 176 kB]

View available presentations:

 

NURSING

Topics discussed during the nursing meeting included a presentation by Juana Jimenez Sánchez, coordinator of the Permanent Commission for Nursing in the Mexican Secretary of Health regarding challenges and expectations of Mexican Nursing in the 21st century. The presentation included an overview of the health status of Mexico, the goals of the health department, the accreditation of health services and the structure of nursing services. Among other challenges, recruitment was especially highlighted, though over 50,000 nurses graduated between 2005 and 2009. Mexican nurses are being taken by other countries which have nursing shortages and women are no longer going into traditional profession such as nursing.

Another topic discussed was benchmarking. The University of Queensland developed a benchmarking framework and presented some of the results. The nursing group agreed to develop this activity further by undertaking a scoping exercise to develop a research/scholarship database as part of a broad strategy to promote collaborative research and publications within U21 nursing faculty and schools.

Other topics discussed included student mobility and student exchange utilizing the student 360 abroad network, the Virtual Exchange Project (VEP) and the contribution of the nursing group to the U21 UN MDG initiative. The VEP was identified by many members as an expanding project and an evaluation process of the pilot study should be carried out to get a publication. Members noticed that nursing curricula already contained some aspects of UN MDGs and that it was important to create a database to share good practises.

View the U21 Nursing meeting agenda [PDF 176 kB]

View the meeting report (Derek Chambers) [PDF 14.9 kB]

View available presentations:

 

HEALTH AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES

Participants agreed that the main target for the coming year was to have a recruitment drive to increase representation from health and rehabilitation sciences in the U21 health sciences group. The need to engage other disciplines than physiotherapy was particularly emphasized. Topics discussed during the health and rehabilitation sciences meeting included a presentation on the Virtual Exchange Project, aiming at involving the HRS group in addition to the nursing group. It was decided that the VEP would initially be piloted between Lund and Nottingham to have a report in Korea in 2011. The meeting also included a discussion about research collaboration opportunities and the need to identify link people at each organisation to facilitate research and teaching collaboration. Among other issues, the structure and delivery of educational provision was also discussed and it was suggested to organise a workshop before or after the annual meeting to look at benchmarking, standards, accreditations and education provision across HRS. The place of UN MDG case studies within HRS curriculum was also tackled and some participants committed to support the development of case studies, especially mental health and long-term conditions.

View the U21 Health and Rehabilitation Sciences meeting agenda [PDF 175 kB]

View the meeting report (Grahame Pope) [PDF 7.3 kB]

 

DENTISTRY

The dentistry meeting included discussions on international student exchange. Though participants agreed it was essential to facilitate student exchange, they also understand there are a lot of variations regarding time of visits, expectations, accommodations, finance, etc. One idea is to take student exchange forward in a more formal way and use way space to populate a database with information on what each institution has to offer and facilitate exchanges.

Prof. Karen Gardner from UBC presented on the very positive evaluation over the last years of the international peer review audit project (AKA international blogging project). Prof. Susan Bridges from Hong Kong reported on the involvement of students in the project in Hong Kong and highlighted that participation in the project was very variable according to the university. In Vancouver and Hong Kong for example, all students are taking part, whereas in Melbourne and Birmingham, only a group of self-selected students take part. The project has had positive evaluation and has improved student learning, but the main focus of global citizenship has kind of got lost along the line. Taking advantage of the IADR meeting in San Diego in March 2011, the group planned to have a workshop to take the project further. A very positive point is that the University of Birmingham was able to secure some funding for the project.

Regarding the U21 UN MDG initiative, the group was very enthusiastic about the case study about dentistry and is willing to use it within the teaching. Among other subjects, potential research collaborations across dentistry network were also discussed. Dr. Marjoke Vervoorn from ACTA in Amsterdam, a potential new member within the group, presented the work done in ACTA and specially outlined the research structure.

View the U21 Dentistry meeting agenda [PDF 182 kB]

View the meeting report (Deborah White) [PDF 5.4 kB]

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