Mini-Med School Dates & Topics
Additional advertisement for upcoming community-education event:
Being Mortal: Free Film Screening & Discussion
“Hope is not a plan” Dr. Atul Gawande
Join us for a free screening and discussion of the PBS FRONTLINE documenting Being Mortal. Based on the best-selling book by Dr. Atul Gawande, this film explores the hopes of patients and families facing terminal illness and their relationships with the doctors, nurses and family members who care for them.
See the film and be part of a national conversation taking place in our community that asks: “Have you and your family had these important conversations and planned ahead?”
Where: Tentative, WVSOM Student Center
Date: Tentative, Monday, March 20, 2017
Time: Tentative, 5:00-7:30pm
This event is a program of: WVOM & Hospice Care
Information for Presenters
Each presentation should focus on the guiding question and (at a minimum) answer the objectives. For each club led presentation, there needs to be at least one second year helping with the presentation and delivery. Presentations are 30 mins. long; however, it is very important to engage your audience with hands-on-activities. We request that lecturing & powerpoints be limited to no more than 15 mins. of the total time. If you need any help coming up with hands-on activities, please do not hesitate to reach out to Lisa Smith, Dr. Nazar, or your club advisors.
Expectations for Presentations:
· Lay language: Presentations should use appropriate lay-language to explain medical topics.
· Presentation transitions: The presentation should be well organized with appropriate transitions.
· Engagement & active learning: The presentation should incorporate guiding questions, hands-on activities, as well as utilizes appropriate visuals, models, simulations, videos, animations, etc. (where applicable).
· Current & accurate information: Presentations should utilize current and accurate information from reliable sources. These should be sited at the end.
· Dynamic delivery: The presentation group should utilize dynamic speaker(s) who maintains appropriate volume & tone and encourage audience participation.
· Professionalism: The presentation group is expected to meet all deadlines, utilize constructive feedback, arrive on time, and be prepared for both the dry-run and actual mini-med school.
Resources available: Additional information regarding making requests will be sent out to each presentation group in December.
· You may request materials (plasticized anatomy models, brains, microscopes & microscope slides, etc.) from the anatomy lab. Gloves will be provided if requested.
· Simulators and clinical skills mannequins are available.
· If you need any materials to be purchased in advance, please contact Lisa Smith. There are funds available.
· Media resources will be available to help set up computers for presentations, etc.
First drafts of presentation outlines & power-points (if you are using a powerpoint) are due no later than: January 6, 2017.
A couple teaching techniques that may be helpful as you design your presentation:
1.) Use of Graphic Organizers: A graphic organizer is a visual display or diagram that helps audience members build connections between different concepts and facts. Typically, audience members fill in their graphic organizers throughout a presentation. Charts, webs, Venn Diagrams: these are all potential graphic organizers. You can fill in certain sections of a graphic organizer and have audience members fill in remaining sections throughout a presentation. They are also sometimes used at the beginning or end of a learning activity or lecture. Ultimately, these help to consolidate and organize information, as well as show relationships between information, which the audience member can later reference.
2.) Use of Pre/Post Formative Assessments: When leading a presentation, you may want your audience to think about the information before you begin presenting. You might ask questions to determine what your audience already knows about a topic, or what they would like to know about a topic. You may ask them to write this down on a sheet of paper on their own, or you may have a scribe that documents ideas from the entire audience as a public display. You may even have a brief pre-quiz to serve this similar purpose. Often, at the end of a presentation or activity, you facilitate reflection on these initial thoughts. Has any of the audience member’s ideas changed? Have any new questions developed as a result of the activity/presentation?