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Capturing the wisdom of the crowd: health professions’ educators meet at a virtual world café

BACKGROUND: Conversations about educational challenges and potential solutions among a globally and culturally diverse group of health professions’ educators can facilitate identity formation, mentoring relationships and professional network building. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it even more impo...

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Autores principales: McKimm, Judy, Ramani, Subha, Kusurkar, Rashmi A., Fornari, Alice, Nadarajah, Vishna Devi, Thampy, Harish, Filipe, Helena P., Kachur, Elizabeth K., Hays, Richard
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7553368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33051804
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40037-020-00623-y
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author McKimm, Judy
Ramani, Subha
Kusurkar, Rashmi A.
Fornari, Alice
Nadarajah, Vishna Devi
Thampy, Harish
Filipe, Helena P.
Kachur, Elizabeth K.
Hays, Richard
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Kusurkar, Rashmi A.
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Filipe, Helena P.
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Hays, Richard
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description BACKGROUND: Conversations about educational challenges and potential solutions among a globally and culturally diverse group of health professions’ educators can facilitate identity formation, mentoring relationships and professional network building. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it even more important to co-create and disseminate knowledge, specifically regarding online and flexible learning formats. APPROACH: Based on the principles of social learning, we combined speed mentoring and world café formats to offer a virtual Zoom™ workshop, with large and small group discussions, to reach health professions’ educators across the globe. The goal was to establish a psychologically safe space for dialogue regarding adaptation to online teaching-learning formats. EVALUATION: We aimed to establish psychological safety to stimulate thought-provoking discussions within the various small groups and obtain valuable contributions from participants. From these conversations, we were able to formulate ‘hot tips’ on how to adapt to (sometimes new) online teaching-learning formats while nurturing teacher and student wellbeing. REFLECTION: Through this virtual workshop we realized that despite contextual differences, many challenges are common worldwide. We experienced technological difficulties during the session, which needed rapid adaptation by the organising team. We encouraged, but did not pressure, participants to use video and audio during breakout discussions as we wanted them to feel safe and comfortable. The large audience size and different time zones were challenging; therefore, leadership had to be resilient and focussed. Although this virtual format was triggered by the pandemic, the format can be continued in the future to discuss other relevant global education topics.
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spelling pubmed-75533682020-10-14 Capturing the wisdom of the crowd: health professions’ educators meet at a virtual world café McKimm, Judy Ramani, Subha Kusurkar, Rashmi A. Fornari, Alice Nadarajah, Vishna Devi Thampy, Harish Filipe, Helena P. Kachur, Elizabeth K. Hays, Richard Perspect Med Educ Show and Tell BACKGROUND: Conversations about educational challenges and potential solutions among a globally and culturally diverse group of health professions’ educators can facilitate identity formation, mentoring relationships and professional network building. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it even more important to co-create and disseminate knowledge, specifically regarding online and flexible learning formats. APPROACH: Based on the principles of social learning, we combined speed mentoring and world café formats to offer a virtual Zoom™ workshop, with large and small group discussions, to reach health professions’ educators across the globe. The goal was to establish a psychologically safe space for dialogue regarding adaptation to online teaching-learning formats. EVALUATION: We aimed to establish psychological safety to stimulate thought-provoking discussions within the various small groups and obtain valuable contributions from participants. From these conversations, we were able to formulate ‘hot tips’ on how to adapt to (sometimes new) online teaching-learning formats while nurturing teacher and student wellbeing. REFLECTION: Through this virtual workshop we realized that despite contextual differences, many challenges are common worldwide. We experienced technological difficulties during the session, which needed rapid adaptation by the organising team. We encouraged, but did not pressure, participants to use video and audio during breakout discussions as we wanted them to feel safe and comfortable. The large audience size and different time zones were challenging; therefore, leadership had to be resilient and focussed. Although this virtual format was triggered by the pandemic, the format can be continued in the future to discuss other relevant global education topics. Bohn Stafleu van Loghum 2020-10-13 2020-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7553368/ /pubmed/33051804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40037-020-00623-y Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Kachur, Elizabeth K.
Hays, Richard
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