how social media can change health professional education

How Social Media can change Health Professional EducationDr Anne Marie Cunningham, MB, BCh, MPHAcademic Lead for eLearningInstitute of Medical Education, Cardiff University

“determined not to be one of the sheep”

Boundary crossings and boundary objects

Transformation

Learning Technology

ProfessionalismScholarship

As a new professionalism?

Is professionalism….a set of attitudes and behaviours?

an identity and set of values?

Appropriate or NOT???

https://www.flickr.com/photos/zackrepko/4863490513

The “vanilla physician”

https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewlove/79311807

https://www.flickr.com/photos/clappstar/2773208127/

Surveillancehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/pickard/31220953/

Dr Kate Granger

#hellomynameis

What we cover:

What not

to

do• Brea

k

confidential

ity

• Abuse

collea

gues

What to do more off• Learn• Share

How to manage

• Digital distraction

• Tips and tricks

Where to find out more:

As a learning technology?

“Fauxial learning” not “ Social learning”

How can we help students?

Case Based Learning

SupportedCollaborativeActive

Students choose where to share learning

Facebook Wiki Scoopi

t

What do students learn from?

Textbooks

Online content from other universities

Lectures

Online content made by other

students

Tutorials YouTube

The problem?

Too much

content!

What is good

quality?

What is relevan

t?

The solution? …… Curation

Curator filters and adds commentary - posts resources to Scoopit

Peer-reviewe

d content

Student generat

ed content

Social media

Who are the curators?

StudentsStaff

How are we using it?

CBL group pages

Case “master” pages

Subject-specific pages

What does it take to be a good curator?

•Accuracy•Relevance

•Framework

Know subject

•Ease of access

•Right levelKnow

audience

What are your learners using?HEA Visitors and Residents Project

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“There is a divide between formal and informal learning.

Students navigate the dissonance between these – with or without our support.”

Catherine Cronin

As a form of scholarship?

How can social media support…..Scholarly Teaching

Scholarship of Teaching

As transformation?

“Transformative learning is not imposed upon the participants, but built into the very operating principles and everyday social textures of these activities”

Engestrom 2009http://www.helsinki.fi/cradle/documents/Engestrom%20Publ/Wildfire%20activities%20paper.pdf

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucedaley/3339957468/

Social Production

Runaway Object

• Nature of object

Knots in mycorrhizae

• Locus of agency

Negotiation and Peer Review

• Co-ordinating mechanism

Expansive swarming

engagement, multidirectional

pulsation

• Mode of Learning

Swarminghttps://www.flickr.com/photos/biggles621/8505233404/

“Learning in wildfire activities is learning by swarming that crosses boundaries and ties knots between actors operating in fractured and often poorly charted terrains.”

Engeström, Y., & Sannino, A. Studies of expansive learning: Foundations, findings and future challenges. Educational Research Review (2010)

#FOAMed as wildfire activity

Object• Medical

education

Movement• #FOAMed

Community• Clinicians• Students• Educators

What happens when we are not setting the agenda?

#justiceforlb quilt

LB Billhttp://lbbill.wordpress.com/

#JusticeforLB as wildfire activity

Object• Support for

people with Learning Disabilities

Movement• #JusticeforLB

Community• Families• Carers• LD nurses

Identity

Relationships Powe

r

ControlTrus

t

Context

Thank youAbout.me/amcunningham

@amcunningham

cunninghamam@cardiff.ac.uk