Learner assessment |
create engaging learning solutions to improve health professions education
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Improving health professions education requires innovative and engaging solutions to effectively teach today's learners. In multiple classes throughout the course of this degree, we learned about needs assessments. It is important to identify specific areas where a gap in the curriculum exists, or where improvements can be made in order to formulate an engaging solution. The first artifact is a needs assessment excerpt from my simulation scenario on surgical ergonomics. This portion of scenario development focuses on why attention to this problem is important, and identifies the need in our current education curriculum that can be addressed with an interactive lesson which is more engaging to our learners. The second artifact I chose is the facilitator's guide that I developed to go along with this simulation. Often in my own education, I have participated in simulation scenarios in which the facilitator is not fully briefed, or does not understand the full potential of the technology we are lucky enough to have available to us at UNMC. This decreases the interactivity of the lesson, and often the result is an experience that is significantly less "hands-on" than it was intended to be. During the simulation course, we learned to address this problem by creating a thorough and comprehensive guide for both facilitators and students to review prior to entering the simulation, so that they are prepped and ready to participate in the full experience.
