Dean's Awards for Innovation in Teaching - Launched 2015
Winners of the Dean's Awards 2018-19 - 36,140 Euro awarded
The fifth year of the Dean's Awards for Innovation in Teaching supported six innovationscross the schools of Medicine, Nursing & Midwifery and Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Dr Annemarie Bennett, Assistant Professor in Dietetics, School of Medicine
Feedback indicates that students on their first clinical placement (in Year 2) are often unprepared for common communication challenges that can be abruptly posed by patients. This project aims to develop a multimedia teaching package for Fresher students on strategies to manage common communication challenges in the clinical setting, such as: Distressed Patient | Ambivalent Patient | ‘Tangent’ Patient | ‘Hard of Hearing’ Patient.
Dr Louise Gallagher & Dr Mark Monaghan, School of Nursing and Midwifery; Dr Cicely Roche, School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences; Professor Seamus Donnelly, School of Medicine
Positive and respectful learning environments are critical to the development of professional identities in healthcare. However, many students encounter challenging behaviours and interactions while on clinical placement that impact on their learning and may contribute to attrition from professional programmes (Scott et al, 2017, Benmore et al, 2018). This project involves developing an e-Learning package, which aims to help students develop positive professional qualities and interpersonal skills, to assist in dealing with challenges in the healthcare setting. It aims to build healthcare students’ capacity in dealing with potentially challenging clinical interactions.
Dr Emer Guinan, Associate Professor for Interprofessional Learning
Interprofessional learning (IPL) within the Faculty of Health Sciences, runs as a common theme integrated throughout all four Schools. This project proposes 1) the development of a dedicated online space to host content for IPL and 2) to enhance the current content using multimedia development.
Dr Daniela Tropea, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
The Neuroscience syllabus is quite broad and the students often find hard to connect and integrate all the different parts. There is the need to provide a tool that would help the students review and integrate the content and understand the correlations existing between the different sections of the syllabus. NexusMentis is a game that can be played by individuals or teams, and it will encourage the students to elaborate the information acquired during the lectures, and stimulate their critical thinking and the integrated vision of how the brain works. NexusMentis has the potential to be scaled at different levels, from top to bottom: even for students of primary and secondary schools, and it can be enriched with additional material and digital displays to evolve its content and even to become a commercial product.
Freda Neill, Clinical Skills Manager, Trinity Simulation Suite, School of Nursing & Midwifery
Project team:
• Paul Costello (elearning), SNM team: Karen McTague, Tracey O’Neill, Sinead Buckley
• Faculty of Health Sciences - Interprofessional learning – Emer Guinan
• School of Medicine – Clare Whelan
• School of Pharmacy – Tamasine Grimes
• School of Computer Science and Statistics – Sinead Impey (Phd candidate ADAPT centre)
The purpose of this project is to develop a series of Interprofessional clinical practice scenarios utilising the TSS, live video streaming and an interactive online discussion board. The purpose is to extend the interprofessional learning across the Facility of Health Sciences (without the requirement of class rooms, and using current resources (staff, TSS) so that students regardless of their location; allowing No Room Required: An eHealth Learning Series to be flexible, inclusive, current and relevant to practice.
Dr Jo-Hanna Ivers, Department of Public Health & Primary Care, School of Medicine
The current project seeks to develop a new approach to learning. To teach medical students how to teach and to be curriculum designers. The project aims to allow the students to contribute to the School of Medicines digital educational materials, either by improving existing materials or by designing, researching, and creating new materials. Students will be asked to take a particular part of the curriculum that they have finished and develop a digital enhancement to be delivered to future cohorts. These innovative projects will be student-led and peer-developed.