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A New Approach to Developing Postgraduate Research Skills For Busy Medical Registrars: Is an online approach up to t

A New Approach to Developing Postgraduate Research Skills For Busy Medical Registrars: Is an online approach up to the challenge?. 5 th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference Colleen Aldous 26 September, 2011. The context. MMed degree – new challenges. Current situation.

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A New Approach to Developing Postgraduate Research Skills For Busy Medical Registrars: Is an online approach up to t

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  1. A New Approach to Developing Postgraduate Research Skills For Busy Medical Registrars: Is an online approach up to the challenge? 5th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference Colleen Aldous 26 September, 2011

  2. The context • MMed degree – new challenges • Current situation

  3. The problems • Mentors may not be well equipped for research • Time constraints • Geographically distributed throughout all the academic hospitals

  4. What do MMed students need? • They need to know what’s happening • They need tailored ‘how to’ information

  5. A look at theories… • Instructivism • Constructivism • Social Constructivism

  6. A look at theories… • Experiential learning • Reflective learning • Situated learning

  7. A look at theories… • Anchored learning • Community of practice • Co-operative learning

  8. My theory… • The ‘ablutionist’ theory • Aldous,C., Rheeder, P. & Esterhuizen, T. 2011. Writing Your First Clinical Research Protocol. Juta Publishers. Cape Town

  9. An Online learning site! The answer! • Solves the problem of geographic distribution • Solves the time constraints issues of the students • Is a one-stop-shop for everything to do with the MMed and the research process

  10. The design Two sections – • a course • admin and communication, • Communication – with me, with each other, with themselves • Admin – Official stuff, merely a repository of information

  11. What you see first…

  12. Admin & communication

  13. The course Instructivist Management } Community of practice Constructivist and Experiential learning Reflective learning 16 Units in total

  14. Problems experienced • The Moodle site is not always accessible to students • How does one get the buy in of the students? Is it just too early to tell? • Do we need to give them some incentive?

  15. The way forward • Research; theories and what others have done • Develop the course further and provide bi-weekly group supervision (hybrid teaching) • Monitor and compare the progress of students who follow the current MMed rules only and those who do the course in addition (possible publication)

  16. Thank You for your valuable inputs…

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