Pharmacists’ Ways of Thinking and Ways of Doing through Object Based Learning
byI found teaching inspiration for pharmacy education in the most unexpected place – Ancient Greece. It all started with a digital collection of artefacts…
Medicine and Health
Smart Responses to Communicating Health Messages: Developing a podcast assessment in first year of nursing studies
byPopulation Health Population Health is a first-year unit for pre-registration nursing students that takes a broad perspective of health and focuses students on the…
A style guide to provide clarity and improve students’ experience
byComments shared by students in the semester 1 USS, and presented as a qualitative topic–model analysis at this year’s Symposium by Jess Frawley and Sam Clarke, highlighted something that we know well: students value clear communication and clear expectations. By way of the…
Preparing students for learning in the hospital environment – an interdisciplinary, interactive resource for all
by“Preparation for Learning in the Hospital Environment” is an interactive, online resource designed to prepare students from both health and non-health disciplines for workplace…
Assessing Clinical Skills in light of COVID-19
byThe first year of the renewed MD 2020 curriculum was implemented in January of this year. The Year 1 program focuses on developing the…
Collaborative assignments via Zoom: “It was a new experience but a good one.”
byIn Semester 1, 2020 among the many challenges with rapidly going online was how to modify complex assignments to achieve the same learning outcomes…
Animations in education – why and how?
byTeaching students from a broad range of academic backgrounds is a challenge, one that is quite common in many postgraduate coursework degrees. Students in…
From educational innovation grant to national tour
byAn inter-faculty group of eight University of Sydney academics, as the Sydney Arts and Health Collective, had been working together since 2016 to find…
Love learning – a colloquium on interactive lecture sessions
byIn this Colloquium, participants in the 2018 Peer Observation and Review of Teaching (PORT) program from The University of Sydney’s Faculty of Science and…
Making Sense of Feedback in Public Health Assessments
byThe importance of feedback in higher education is already well established. This is even more so the case given the move towards more student-centred…