PROJECT OUTCOMES
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A key outcome from this project was a suite of twelve learning and teaching (L&T) materials, co-designed with, and for, health professions students. While developed, piloted and refined for one discipline, these materials have transferable elements that educators from other disciplines can adapt. For example, physiology’s approach to add a pre-submission reflection where students apply a Planetary Health to their assessment task. The reflective questions and rubric, designed with students, could be utilised in many other disciplines.
This is a summary of the L&T activities and materials developed by students and educators in each discipline involved in this project:
Public Health & Health Science: iSAP case including a task description, expert response and assessment rubrics
Occupational Therapy: Advocacy workshop including a pre-class moodle e-book and an in-class slide deck
Physiology: A reflective activity embedded into the submission of a group research assessment task including the description, reflective question prompts and assessment rubric
Obstetrics & Gynaecology: Laboratory class including a pre-lab online module and in-person workshop slide deck
Nutrition & Dietetics: Values-based practice workshop including pre-class activities (moodle book), slide deck for in-person interactive workshop and post-class activities (moodle book)
Medicine (Malaysia): Waste management laboratory module including online materials with two student videos
Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine: Workshop on melioidosis case study including an online pre-class module (moodle book with student video) and slide deck for interactive in-person workshop
Developmental Biology: Workshop incorporating Indigenous perspectives including pre-class online activities, an in-person workshop slide deck and post-class online materials
Nursing & Midwifery: Workshop including pre-class online activities (moodle book) and slide deck for in-person workshop
Pharmacy (Australia and Malaysia): Workshop and exam content on antimicrobial resistance including pre-class online module, in-person workshop with facilitator notes and an exam question
Microbiology & Medicine: Online module on antimicrobial resistance including five video lectures and interactive activities
Anatomy & Developmental Biology: Online module including slide deck, exam questions and assessment rubric
More information about each of these disciplines and the development, piloting and refining processes involved can be found on each disciplines' page via the navigation bar above.
The Learning and Teaching Materials designed by all Champion Students and Educators from each of these disciplines are available HERE
Please note: These materials are only accessible for Monash University staff. For inquiries, please contact liza.barbour@monash.edu
How do we know that these learning and teaching activities are effective?
To monitor shifts in knowledge and attitudes amongst students participating in these L&T activities during the pilot stage, a pre-post poll was facilitated.
Students responded to five questions, with a Likert scale from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5).
As the polls were anonymous, an unpaired t-test was performed (pre-poll n = 493, post-poll n = 455) and revealed statistically significant improvements (<0.0001) across all five questions.
Q1: I know how best to explain what planetary health means for healthcare professionals
Pre-poll mean ± SD 2.3 ± 0.76
Post-poll mean ± SD 3.24 ± 0.59
p-value <0.0001
Q2: I know what healthcare professionals in my field can do to address the causes and consequences of climate change.
Pre-poll mean ± SD 2.42 ± 0.72
Post-poll mean ± SD 3.23 ± 0.6
p-value <0.0001
Q3: Planetary health should be core business for healthcare professionals.
Pre-poll mean ± SD 3.06 ± 0.68
Post-poll mean ± SD 3.37 ± 0.66
p-value <0.0001
Q4: I feel equipped to advocate for change to promote planetary health within my field.
Pre-poll mean ± SD 2.29 ± 0.75
Post-poll mean ± SD 3.11 ± 0.64
p-value <0.0001
Q5: My training has prepared me to address the causes and consequences of climate change within my field.
Pre-poll mean ± SD 2.3 ± 0.75
Post-poll mean ± SD 3.15 ± 0.66
p-value <0.0001
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