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Annual Meetings - Nottingham 2006

The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham in England hosted the seventh annual meeting of the U21 Health Sciences group. The meeting (13 - 15 September 2006) was attended by 90 delegates from 15 member universities and included key representatives from medicine; dentistry; nursing; physiotherapy; occupational therapy; audiology; speech science/speech pathology; and pharmacy.

The following U21 universities were represented:

Photo: U21 Health Sciences' Delegates
Photo: U21 Health Sciences' Delegates

View the participant list [PDF 45.8 kB]

 

Workshop on global e-health

A second workshop on global e-health was conducted prior to the group's annual meeting. Topics included an update on U21 activities, for example, the telehealth for the underserved initiative including U21 student involvement; e-health policy; and the proposed e-book. Other topics included the MOU and proposed collaboration with the Swinfen Charitable Trust; interprofessionalism and e-health; and internationalism and e-health.

View the U21 e-health workshop agenda [PDF 91.7 kB]

View the U21 e-health workshop summary [PDF 100kB]

 

Nursing doctoral student forum

A three-day doctoral student forum was held at the University of Nottingham, in conjunction with the U21 Health Sciences group's annual meeting. Eighteen doctoral students from nine countries participated in the forum, and five U21 Schools of Nursing were represented. The event was designed to enable and facilitate international networking opportunities for participants, and the theme over the three days was 'Research and Research Careers: Developing Knowledge for Healthcare'. Major segments included master-classes with U21 Nursing Professors and Lead Researchers from the University of Nottingham and the wider U21 network; presentations and critiques of participating doctoral students' work; presentations by U21 Nursing Faculty; panel discussions; career development workshops, and the option to visit practice areas.

Aim:

View programme for nursing group doctoral student forum [PDF 120 kB]
View the report for the nursing group doctoral student forum [PDF 26.4 kB]

View the photos from the nursing group doctoral student forum

 

The Core Meeting Programme - selected presentations, reports and notes

This year's annual meeting included multidisciplinary sessions focusing on problem-based learning; interprofessional learning; student and staff exchange; complementary and alternative medicines within traditional therapies; and modernizing the healthcare workforce. Sessions were conducted as debates and/or comprised a series of presentations and group discussion.

View core meeting programme [PDF 36.8 kB]

 

CORE MEETING PROGRAMME – DAY 1

Problem-based learning

Prof Richard Donnelly and Prof Niv Patil – co-chairs; Prof Maggi Savin-Baden, speaker; Prof Gareth Williams, Ms Mary Chapple, Mr Andrew Raftery and A/Prof Gillian Webb (debate)

This session commenced with a presentation on PBL, followed by four speakers debating a motion against the incorporation of PBL in health sciences education.

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Interprofessional Learning

A/Prof Simon Mockett and Dr Sophia Chan (co-chairs); Prof Debra Humphris, Dr Helen Armitage and Prof Lesley Bainbridge (speakers)

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U21 global e-health

This session comprised a panel discussion led by Profs Kendall Ho and Peter Brooks. Panel members included the U21 global e-health steering committee members (Prof Richard Wootton, Dr Niv Patil, Prof Richard Scott) and a representative of the e-health and interprofessionalism working group (Prof Nick Shaw). The session included brief updates on e-health activities including the telehealth for the underserved initiative and the experience of participating medical students; e-health policy; e-health and interprofessional issues; and the proposed collaboration between U21 Health Sciences and the Swinfen Charitable Trust.

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CORE MEETING PROGRAMME – DAY 2

Student and staff exchange

Prof Claire Anderson and Mrs Heather Baker (co-chairs); Miss Gail Armistead, Ms Nicola Greenhill, and Prof Joan McMeeken (speakers)

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Complementary and alternative medicines within traditional therapies

This session comprised a debate on a motion supporting the use of complementary and alternative medicines within traditional therapies.

A/Prof Marion Walker introduced this session involving Prof Mike Saks (chair), Prof Sally Thorne, speakers for the motion, Profs De-an Guo and Kelvin Chan, and speakers against the motion, Profs Peter Brooks and Kenneth Muir.

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U21 Health Informatics Course Update (Prof Peter Harris)

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U21 Course in Health Informatics: Feasibility Studies - 2005 [PDF 94.7 kB]

 

U21 Health Sciences Executive Committee meeting

View the notes of the meeting [PDF 68.7 kB]

 

U21 Health Sciences Dinner - Prestwold Hall

View the photos from the dinner

 

CORE MEETING PROGRAMME – DAY 3

Modernizing the healthcare workforce (Profs Veronica James and Peter Brooks (co-Chairs), Prof Elizabeth Fradd (key speaker).

The session on workforce included brief overviews by speakers from a range of professions and countries, focusing on broad healthcare policies / education / workforce planning / shortages/ and movement between countries and between professions.

Speakers included Dr Sophia Chan (Nursing in Hong Kong); Prof Eva Holmstrom (physiotherapy in Sweden); Prof Michael Morgan (dentistry in Australia and New Zealand); Prof Philip Lumley (Dentistry in the UK and the EU); Prof Peter Brooks (Medicine in Australia); Prof Jeff Harrison (Pharmacy in New Zealand); and Prof James Angus (Proposal for Medical and Health Sciences education at the University of Melbourne).

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The discipline meetings – selected presentations, reports and notes

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

 

Medicine

The meeting comprised presentations and discussion on a range of topics including the public understanding of science post-genome; the future of academic medicine and the ICRAM initiative; the role of veterinary science in the practice and teaching of health science professionals; and an overview of the University of British Columbia's distributed medical undergraduate education programme. Members were also provided with an update on the global e-health initiative including the 'telehealth for the underserved project'.

View U21 Medicine meeting agenda [PDF 35.4 kB]

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Dentistry

Major topics for the U21 dentistry meeting included e-learning, electronic patient records, and electronic treatment planning. Updates included a report on the Transcultural Communication Training Project.

View U21 Dentistry meeting agenda [PDF 37.6 kB]

View available presentations:

View the meeting report (not yet available)

 

Nursing

The U21 nursing group continued discussion on benchmarking research and clinical education, as well as student exchange. Additional topics included e-health; clinical academic careers; a proposal for a scholars programme; and follow up on the doctoral student forum.

View U21 Nursing meeting agenda [PDF 36.7 kB]

View available presentations:

View the meeting report [PDF 93.0 kB]

View the photo from the nursing group

 

Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Finalizing the position paper on practice education was a major focus for the U21 health and rehabilitation sciences group. Other topics included telerehabilitation; research and benchmarking.

View U21 Health and Rehabilitation Sciences meeting agenda [PDF 37.8 kB]

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Pharmacy

View U21 Pharmacy meeting agenda [PDF 43.9 kB]

View the proposed project 'Visualising Issues in Pharmacy' [PDF 460 kB]

 

Summary of Meeting Outcomes

The session on global workforce generated a great deal of discussion and interest and a working group will convene throughout 2007 to explore how U21 Health Sciences can inform and contribute to workforce issues within the international context. A subsequent workshop on the matter will take place during the next meeting in Hong Kong (26 – 28 September 2007) and a range of stakeholders will be invited to participate in the proceedings.

Outcomes from the U21 Dentistry group meeting included the proposal to hold a Forensic Odontology dentistry (FOd) symposium to explore and collaborate on education and research in this area and to showcase the achievements of FOd to the public and media. The symposium will coincide with the 2007 Health Sciences meeting in Hong Kong. Similarly, on the basis of a successful evaluation of this year's initiative, the U21 nurses plan to convene a second doctoral student conference in Hong Kong in 2007, incorporating presentation and networking opportunities and master classes for doctoral students across the U21 network.

Following the Nottingham meeting, the U21 Health and Rehabilitation Sciences group is preparing to submit for publication a paper on practice education. Other planned publications include a paper outlining the U21 nurses' experiences of benchmarking clinical education in an international context, and a publication of the proceedings of the proposed Forensic Odontology dentristy symposium.

U21 pharmacy delegates have agreed to a joint project, to be led by the University of Auckland's School of Pharmacy and the University of New South Wales' College of Fine Arts. The project will involve pharmacy and graphic arts students working together to conceptualize and create a range of visual tools focusing on global health issues and how pharmacy might positively impact on the prevention and treatment of a range of diseases and practices and by producing something internationally meaningful for patient education and communication.

E-health continues to be a major theme across the disciplines, with the health and rehabilitation group focusing on telerehabilitation; the dentistry group exploring developments in electronic patient records and electronic treatment plans; and the U21 nursing group's planning to scope e-health activity across U21 nursing schools. The proposed collaboration between U21 Health Sciences and the Swinfen Charitable Trust for provision of telehealth to underserved communities utilizing medical students across the U21 network is an ongoing matter for consideration and determination by the group's Executive.

 

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