Get started with PollEverywhere!

Would you like to make your teaching sessions more interactive? We now have a license for PollEverywhere software which you can use to ask questions and get responses from  groups of students of any size. You might already be familiar with ‘clickers’ but with PollEverywhere students will use their own mobile phone, tablet or laptop, and you have much more choice in the type of question you can easily ask.

Next Wednesday (27/11/13) at 1pm we will run a training session in which we will show you how quickly you can start using this software and how easy it will be to integrate it into your teaching.

Please bring your laptop (that you have admin rights on and that has internet connection eg Eduroam) and we will get you started in 50 minutes.

The session will be in Room 0.15 Cochrane building. Please sign up here to let us know you are coming or if you would like to know more.

Quikpoll - Does What It Says On The Tin

What is it?

Kwiqpoll is a ridiculously simple polling app. Create a poll and share the link on any social media site or email. It's optimized for mobile and desktop so it looks great on any screen. There is zero registration.  

 

Policy

Each poll is open to voting for either 3 or 7 days. After that, only the results will be available for another 7 days. Once those 7 days have passed, the poll will be permanently deleted.
 

Privacy

Kwiqpoll does not ask for or collect any information about you. However, Kwiqpoll does set cookies which are necessary for the poll to work, those cookies expire when the poll expires.
 

User Agreement

By using Kwiqpoll you accept the User Agreement: Kwiqpoll does not take any responsibility for the content of user created polls.
 

Contact

info [ at ] kwiqpoll [ dot ] comUpdates are announced via Twitter

Virtual Patients at Cardiff; A Review

Virtual Patients are computer-based simulations of fictitious patients presenting with a complaint. The complaint is analysed by the learner and encourages thinking processes surrounding history taking, examination, diagnosis, treatment and discharge, without the obvious risks associated with a student treating a real patient case. The cases can focus on important common condition but can also be used to cover important conditions that it may be difficult for students to gain experience of, such as domestic abuse.

Main Points...

• Allows self-directed learning opportunities
• Narrative/didactic style of delivery for earlier years students
• Branched/exploratory style of learning for later years where knowledge can be applied
• Focus is on applying clinical knowledge to diagnostic thinking and management
• Cognitive realism - that is that the challenge posed to the learner seems real - is more important than visual realism - that is that real photos or video clips are used
• Communication/social skills for patient dialogue can be exercised Opportunity to familiarise with patient dialogue
• Continual focus on learning objectives is key for maintaining relevance
• Regular self-assessment opportunities allows the learner to evaluate their own progress
• Promotion of clinical reasoning is arguably the most important distinguishing feature of VP delivery and purpose

Read more about the comprehensive literature review conducted at Cardiff University School of Medicine...

Access the full literature review here.

Audience Response Systems (Clickers)

The School of Medicine owns 400 Interwrite Response PRS handsets and four wireless receivers. These can be booked out from the School’s eLearning Team. To check availability, use the calendar below.

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