About Our Work - Behind the Scenes
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Mission
SiH is designed to increase the training capacity of primary care education in low-resource settings.
Environmental Scan
Many people and organizations doing similar work, and it is clear the SiH direction is a good one. However, solutions still appear incomplete. How to proceed in the context of all this work?
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Our Model
We will work in full collaboration with partner universities, colleges, and other institutions to increase their abilities to train students, in ways that are time-, cost-, and people-effective.
We envision small groups of learners training in rural and other communities, supported by a small number of faculty. We will make extensive use of peer-peer learning.
Learning formats will include:
- self-study
- case-based learning
- skills stations
- scenarios, with simulation and role-play
- clinical experience
Assessment is designed to be exclusively formative; summative tools and processes will be left with the accrediting universities and colleges.
SiH Work
- projects
- content
- assessment tools
- competency tracking
- putting it all together
Projects
Preventing Crashes: competence in life-threatening situations
- strong support from CKHA
- growing involvement with Western
Maternal and Newborn Health: antenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care
- almost completed
- progress stalled
- no place to implement at present
Top 100: most important conditions for primary care in low-resource settingd
- involvement from people from around the world
- in partnership with Loads of Love
- primarily being authored by med students in Uganda
- need for strengthened administrative support
Learning and Teaching: focused on theory, assessment, and faculty development
- main efforts for Dave these days
Content
Text
- student authors, professional reviewers
- guidelines, examples
- recruitment
- process and facilitation (Google docs)
- responsible for the next two items
- cutting and pasting from other OA sources
- linking out
- regular review (every two years?)
Images
- identify needs
- cut and paste from other OA sources
- create new
- recruitment
- guidelines
- checking in
- $20 honorarium
Multimedia
- examples: videos, podcasts, lectures
- identify needs
- cut and paste from other OA sources
- create new
Assessment Tools
Multiple choice questions
- guidelines
- OA repositories
- technology
Script concordance questions
- guidelines
- OA repositories
- technology
smal group learning cases
OSCE cases
Competency Tracking
example here
to be flexible
Possible functionalities
- dragging topics from a central location, over to folders within a desired organizational framework
- create your own topic
Putting it all together
semantic knowledge |
principles |
skills and procedures |
attitudes |
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educational strategies |
self-learning, clinical experience |
self-learning, case-based learning, clinical experience |
skills stations, scenarios, clinical experience |
scenarios, clinical experience |
assessment strategies |
multiple choice questions |
script concordance questions |
OSCE, field notes |
OSCE, field notes |
examples |
antibiotic use, innervation patterns |
stable vs unstable, abdominal pain NYD |
neurological exam, intubation |
team dynamics, breaking bad news |
Organizational Growth
- personnel
- partnerships
- IT
- funding
Personnel
Board of Directors
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Board of Advisors
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Staff
unpaid
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Partnerships
Universities
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Health Care Institutions
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NGOs
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IT
There are many questions here, namely:
- do we require offline access?
- do we create a new platform, or do we modify an existing one?
- are these delivered through 1,2, or 3 tools?
Funding
Current funds
Funding in the future
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