Learning Resource Manager:

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Learning Resource Manager

• a new role in the Faculty of Medicine
• Suzanne Mobbs
• Office of Medical Education

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Learning Resources Manager

• Seconded in late 2001
• Information Literacy Outcomes
• Development of Foundation Course
• Identify educational medical resources
• By 2002
• Other IM issues
• eMED Map
• WebCT course sites
• Policy and procedural issues

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Features of the Medicine 3802 Program

• Structure
• Integrated 4 broad organisers life cycle
• Scenario, case, experience-based
• Explicit vertical linkages spiral, reiterative
• Content broadened, redistributed, 4 streams
• Scientific basis, Social aspects, Practice
• Learning student-centred, collaborative
• Assessment innovative, capability-based
• Admission

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Program Structure Diagram
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Phase 1 2004-2005
YearA
YearB
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Map and WebCT

• Work together to provide staff and students with
• Big Picture view of Medicine 3802 Program
• Access to information at a program, phase, course
  and learning activity level
• Information about assessment and access to online
  formative assessment

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eMed Map

• Contains information about all elements of the
  program mapped to graduate capabilites
• Developed in-house predominantly designed by
  Eilean Watson (ITET)
• Completed by Design Groups , Teachers and Map
  Administrators

http//ome.med.unsw.edu.au/ome.nsf/website/eMed
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eMed Map
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WebCT

• Individual course sites for every course
• Hosts Content related to course activities
  contained in the Map
• Centrally administered by the OME

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http//129.94.5.30/public/MFAC1503_MFAC1507/index.
html
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Foundations DIG

• Activity Design group comprised of
• 2 Clinicians (POW St George)
• Academic from Pathology
• Academic from School of Public Health and
  Community Medicine
• Academic from Microbiology, Faculty of Science
• Librarian
• Change Manager
• Weekly 2 hour meetings over approx 2 years

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Design Process

• Develop appropriate scenarios
• Develop and timetable learning activities
• Pilot in 2003
• Assessment formative and summative
• Aligning Learning Activities and assessment with
  Desired Outcomes
• Evaluation

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Comments on DIG Involvement

• Ongoing contact with Academic staff
• Opportunity to provide input into learning
  activities and assessment tasks
• Be part of whole process from beginning to
  implementation and on through evaluation and
  improvement

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Foundations Aims

• To develop basic skills to be able to participate
  effectively in the principal learning activities,
  which they will encounter throughout the course.
• To develop basic skills in accessing and
  appropriately using learning resources.
• To develop basic skills and attitudes to
  participate in the different learning
  environments which will be encounter throughout
  the course.

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MFAC1501 Foundations

• Scenarios
• Infection and Immunity in Medical Students
• Looking at issues around immunisation, immunity,
  ethics based on the Faculty of Medicine
  Immunisation Policy
• Stomach Pain
• Focusing on helicobacter pylori and peptic
  ulcers, this scenario introduces the medical
  disciplines

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Graduate Capabilities

• Eight capabilities divided
• into 3 broad areas
• Personal Attributes
• Interactional Abilities
• Applied Knowledge and Skills

For detailed information on the Graduate
capabilites http//ome.med.unsw.edu.au/ome.nsf/we
bsite/newmedprogram.graduatecapabilities
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Personal Attributes

• 2. Self directed learning and critical evaluation
  skills
• Learning projects
• Finding, Evaluating and Synthesising Evidence

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Information Literacy Tutorials

• Integrated into the 8 week course
• 4 x 2 hour tutorials in the Biomedical Library
• 2 x 1 hour Evidence Based Medicine tutorials run
  by clinicians/academics
• Information Literacy Online tutorial also
  available

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Evaluation

• Foundations Evaluation
• 88.5 response rate 199 students
• Information Skills Tutorials
• 50.2 response rate 113 students

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Overall 84.7 agreed
by developing skills on online search methods, i
am now more confident in looking up for my own
information in both assignments and additional
study notes   Definitely improved my skills
here. Made me more confident to go out there and
find my own information.   They were very
useful in reducing the unreasoning fear I had in
using the library, so thanks to the tutes I now
actually spend some time in the library doing
research etc...
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Overall 82.9 of students agreed
i can now use most of the library resources and
online stuff without help from librarians...
makes doing assignments HEAPS easier
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Most useful aspect?

• Learning to search databases/Medline 34
• Learning to use Sirius/SFX 18
• The workbooks 16
• Learning about the variety of online resources
  relevant to medicine 14
• Learning to use the LRD 12
• Learning to use internet search engines 11
• Getting a basic introduction to library / library
  resources 11
• Learning search methods/Boolean etc. 10
• Understanding citations/Citing using APA 7
• Finding and accessing journals articles 7
• Time to practice/useful examples/organised
  tutorials 3
• Not useful/unsure 3
• small groups/discussion and able to ask questions
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• Getting to know Library staff 1

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Least useful aspect?

• Internet Search engines 44
• too long / boring / repetitive 27
• most was useful 21
• Introduction to library/ some aspects too basic
  5
• Timetabling 4
• pace - too fast/too slow 4
• too much information 3
• not enough practice 3
• not well organised / presented 3
• too much time on evaluation 2
• Macs 1
• looking up Index Medicus 1
• not understanding 1
• Medline tutorial 1
• LRD searching 1
• How to access webCT and eMed 1

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Assessment of Information Literacy

• Integrated and ongoing
• Every 8 week course
• Group project
• Individual Assignment
• End of Course Exam
• Generic Criteria
• Effective Communication
• Self-Directed Learning and Critical Evaluation
• Reflective Practitioner

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Capabilities for BGD Birth Control Assignment
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Learning Resources

• Subject guides
• Course specific
• Biomedical Library
• Scenario resources
• Key References in Map/WebCT
• Textbooks and Collection Development

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Other Responsibilities

• OME and new Medicine Program websites
• http//ome.med.unsw.edu.au
• Production of Student and Facilitator Course
  guides, Prac Manuals and Program Guides

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Involvement in

• Work with the Centre for Health Informatics on
  Quick Clinical
• Medsoc Elections
• Population Health Course site (4th year Medicine)

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Thank you for your attention. Any Questions?
Suzanne Mobbs Learning Resources Manager Office
of Medical Education Faculty of Medicine Ph 9385
1011 / 9385 2674 Email s.mobbs_at_unsw.edu.au