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Medical Educators Working Abroad: Who Are They?, Michelle Mclean, Anna Da Silva, Judy Mckimm, Stella Major
Medical Educators Working Abroad: Who Are They?, Michelle Mclean, Anna Da Silva, Judy Mckimm, Stella Major
Michelle McLean
Background: Medical education is an international activity. As students and educators travel across the globe to study and teach, both medical student populations and academic staff profiles are becoming increasingly multinational. Little is, however, known about medical educators who chose to work and live abroad. Methods: Following a pilot study in the Middle East, an online survey was adapted for an international audience. In addition to demographic data, information was collected about international medical educators’ countries of birth, where they had studied, their work history as well as their roles and responsibilities as medical educators. Results: The survey, completed by …
On Being An International Medical Educator, Michelle Mclean, Stella Major, Judy Mckimm
On Being An International Medical Educator, Michelle Mclean, Stella Major, Judy Mckimm
Michelle McLean
Hayden's (2006) article on the internationalisation of medical education set out a compelling vision of transnational medical education. A typical scenario would therefore be an international teacher with a class of international students, an international curriculum and instiutional collaboration across national boundaries. In today's shrinking global world of travel and communication, such a scenario is probably not as uncommon as one might imagine.
Medical Educators Working Abroad: A Pilot Study Of Educators' Experiences In The Middle East, Michelle Mclean, Judy Mckimm, Stella Major
Medical Educators Working Abroad: A Pilot Study Of Educators' Experiences In The Middle East, Michelle Mclean, Judy Mckimm, Stella Major
Michelle McLean
Medical education is now a global enterprise, with many medical educators working internationally, either for short or longer periods or even permanently. In parallel, many medical schools are now involved in collaborations and partnerships with schools in other countries. With this in mind, we set out to explore what motivates, supports and inhibits medical educators who wish to or might work outside their ‘‘home country’’. This article reports on the pilot stage (in specific organizational contexts in Middle East) of a longitudinal project aimed at canvassing medical educators on a broader global scale, using reflective accounts and a questionnaire survey. …
How We "Breathed Life" Into Problem-Based Learning Cases Using A Mobile Application, Michelle Mclean, Victoria Brazil, Patricia Johnson
How We "Breathed Life" Into Problem-Based Learning Cases Using A Mobile Application, Michelle Mclean, Victoria Brazil, Patricia Johnson
Michelle McLean
Background: Problem-based learning (PBL) has been widely adopted in medical education. Learners become bored with paper based cases as they progress through their studies. Aim: To breathe life (i.e. develop virtual patients) into paper-based PBL cases. Methods: The ‘‘patients’’ in paper-based PBL cases in one Year 2 were transformed into virtual patients by simulated patients roleplaying and the videos and associated patient data uploaded to Bond’s Virtual Hospital, a mobile Application. In unsupervised ‘‘clinical teams’’, second-year students undertook ‘‘ward rounds’’ twice a week, prompted by a virtual consultant and registered nurse. Immediately following the ‘‘ward rounds’’, they met with a …