Students enter the “flipped classroom”
Developing Health Professional Educators: Connecting Science and Theory with Learning for Clinical Practice was the theme of this year’s annual Australian and New Zealand Association of Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE) conference.
Three members of staff from the School of Rural Health attended: Senior Lecturer SRH Churchill, Dr Kathy Brotchie; and Dr Cathy Haigh and Bill Haigh from the SRH Latrobe Valley & Warragul.
Dr Brotchie presented a paper on the 2013 Year A cohort students’ responses to a survey on the clinical skills program at SRH Churchill which used an innovative approach to teaching clinical skills known as “the flipped classroom”. Using this approach, Students are expected to learn the theory before coming to class (exploring the online resources and readings. Class time is then used to apply the theory.
Provided with personalised feedback from tutors in facilitated hands-on sessions, students reported favourably on their confidence, level of preparation and the usefulness of the feedback provided to them using this pedagogical structure.
The paper, entitled “More than going through the motion: first year medical students’ responses to a Flipped Classroom approach to teaching”, was included in a session exploring innovations in medical education.
Topsy turvy: Year A students endorsed the flipped classroom approach to learning clinical skills.