Improving Health Professional Education (HPE) and
Practice Through Technology: A Workshop
November 16–17, 2017
Keck Center of the National Academies, Room 100
500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
DAY 1: November 16, 2017
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE: To explore the effective use of technologies as tools for bridging identified gaps within and between health professions education and practice in order to optimize learning, performance and access in high-, middle-, and low-income areas while ensuring the well-being of the formal and informal health workforce.
| 9:00 am | Welcome |
| Malcolm Cox, Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education (IHPE) Co-Chair | |
| SESSION I: Setting the Stage | |
| Objective: To encourage open sharing of ideas across professions, countries, and sectors within three broad categories designed to provide the appropriate tools for training and sustaining a competent health workforce. | |
| 9:15 am | Orientation to the Workshop |
| Pamela Jeffries, Workshop Chair | |
| 9:30 am | Opening Addresses |
| Moderator: Ruth Nemire, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy | |
| Using Social Media to Support Health Professional Learning and Collaboration in Rural and Underserved Environments | |
| Christoph Pimmer, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland | |
| Technology Platforms: Questioning Outdated Models | |
| Catherine M. Casserly, Fellow with the Aspen Institute (via video connection) | |
| Current State of Research and Practice in Digital Learning | |
| George Siemens, Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute, Athabasca University, Canada | |
| SESSION II: Technology for Customer-Driven Workforce Development | |
| Objective: To explore the use of technology for enabling an improved customer experience—for the learner, consumer, patient, provider, educator, etc.—while considering potential risks that could widen disparities between populations. | |
| 11:15 am | Technology-Driven Education and Care |
| Moderator: Javaid Sheikh, Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar | |
| How Technology Enables Teaching and Learning | |
| Katherine McKnight, Center for Evaluation and Study of Educational Equity, RTI International | |
| Customer-Driven Health Workforce Development Using Technology | |
| Cynthia Walker, Global Medical Education, Field Training & Customer Insight, Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure, Medtronic | |
| Discussion/Q&A: Participants at each table talk among themselves and come up with a group question for each of the speakers. | |
| 12:15 pm | Lunch |
| 1:15 pm | Innovators: Rapid Fire Poster Session |
| Moderator: Eric B. Bauman, Clinical Playground, LLC | |
| Example 1: Digital Clinical Experiences, Shadow Health Inc.—Benjamin Lok and Rob Kade | |
| Example 2: vSim for Nursing, Laerdal Medical Corporation—Jeanie Staton and Robin McCune | |
| Example 3: ReelDx, Transforming Healthcare Education with Real Patient Video—Bill Kelly | |
| Example 4: Filament Games—Dan Norton | |
| Example 5: KATS, a Knowledge Acquisition & Testing System—Andrea Parodi | |
| Example 6: Eastern Virginia Medical School, a pioneer in simulation-based education—Geoff Miller | |
| Example 7: PeriopSim: Simulation Training for Operating Room Nurses—Angela Robert | |
| Participants are free to wander around the room to ask individual presenters questions. | |
| 2:45 pm | Break |
| 3:15 pm | Leveraging Technology for Solving Problems Speaker/facilitator: Eric B. Bauman, Clinical Playground, LLC |
| Participants at each table will talk with each other and an innovator to come up with one problem and how technology could aid the solution. | |
| 4:00 pm | Two Sides to Technology: Stories from Around the Globe |
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Moderator: Emilia Iwu, Rutgers University and Jonas Nurse Scholar
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| 4:45/5 pm | Adjourn |
| DAY 2: November 17, 2017 | |
| A continental breakfast will be available starting at 7:30 am | |
| 7:30 am | Breakfast |
| SESSION III: Technology Innovation from Education to Practice | |
| Welcome | |
| Susan Scrimshaw, IHPE Global Forum Co-Chair | |
| 8:00 am | Innovation in e-Care Delivery |
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Moderator: Pamela Jeffries, Workshop Chair
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| Q&A | |
| 8:30 am | Bridging the Education-to-Practice Divide with Technology |
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Moderator: Christoph Pimmer, Workshop Vice-Chair
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| Interactive Discussion | |
| 9:15 am | Break |
| 9:45 am | Applying National Institutes of Health Research in the Virtual Space to a Practice Environment |
| Moderator: Micki Cuppett, Athletic Training Strategic Alliance | |
| Panelists: | |
| The Immersive Virtual Environment Testing Area | |
| Susan Persky, National Human Genome Research Institute | |
| Virtual Reality to Study Motor Learning | |
| Sunbin Song, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke | |
| Virtual Preparedness Training | |
| Victor Cid, National Library of Medicine | |
| Panel Discussion | |
| SESSION IV: The Way Forward | |
| 10:45 am | Take-Home Messages |
| Facilitator: Pamela Jeffries, Workshop Chair | |
| Each table comes up with one take-home message to share. | |
| 11:00 am | Adjourn |
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