Marked Improvement of Adoption Rates of CMS: A New and Simplified Approach to Engage Senior Medical

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Marked Improvement of Adoption Rates of CMS A
New and Simplified Approach to Engage Senior
Medical Faculty

• Steven Keller, Ph.D.
• Judy Washington, M.D.
• New Jersey Medical School

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Why E-Hosting Medical School Courses

• 24/7 access to material
• Allow for different learning styles/speeds
• Facilitate group projects
• With very brief quizzes identify at-risk students
• Simulate interactive learning with large classes
• Provide financial relief for schools!

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Provide Financial Relief for Schools!

• Tenure granted for
• Money makers
• Because you were there
• Scientific advancements
• Political issues
• Often reasons for tenure evaporate with time.
• Leaving Institutions with high costs and little
  productivity

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Leaving Institutions with high costs and little
productivity

• Tenured Professors
• Often have highest salaries
• Have less and less responsibility as we age
• Become disenfranchised from the school
• Idle hands..

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Those Who Cant Do --Teach

• In an effort to gainfully employ us older dogs
  we are relegated to
• Administration
• Committee work
• Teaching

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Old Dogs Teaching

• Out of touch with todays students
• Out of touch with todays advances
• Out of energy
• Passive aggressive behaviors

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E-Course Hosting and Old DogsAdvantages

• Empower the Old Dogs
• Improve moral
• No more idle hands..
• Begin to balance Pay with Productivity
• Free up time form those who can bring in Money
• Allows Content to be reviewed and edited BEFORE
  seen by students!!

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E-Course Hosting and Old DogsChallenges

• New Content
• Technology
• Fear of Unknown
• Real Lack of Ability

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Old Dogs and Technology

• Most have MS WORD or less familiarity
• Most can not surf or Google
• Therefore Fear and Lack of Ability is justified!!

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Overcoming Lack of Ability and Fear

• Non-judgmental atmosphere
• Taught by other Old Dogs
• Talk about Blooms Taxonomy- Never Technology
• Bloom, 1956 Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
  

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Content of First Meeting with Old DogsTalk
Course and Teaching Never Technology

• How have you thought about presenting your course
  to the students?
• Organization of course and material
• PPT presentations
• WORD doc.
• Calendar for your course
• Feedback i.e. discussion boards
• Quizzes and surveys

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Responses to Old Dogs Questions about the How
will we do this?

• Not to worry
• I will have it all set up for you
• Lets concentrate on the teaching and leave the
  programming to the nerds
• Your time and skills are too valuable to worry
  about programming nonsense

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Old Dog Trainers What we do next

• Set up course shell according to the
  specifications discussed with the course
  director.
• Make ALL of the programming decisions
• Course title
• Course instructor
• Course defaults
• Eliminate choices!

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Decisions That the Trainers Make

• Icons
• One type of content holder
• Only DOC, PPT or PDF
• Only discussion, calendar, and course email
  (maybe)
• Layout
• navigation

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Typical Shell
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Typical reveal of Course Material
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Typical Content Hosting Page
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Discussion is there but.
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Training the Old Dogs

• Relate everything to MS WORD PPT
• Create file structure on your CMS just like
  the file structure on your PC
• Browse up the files from one file structure to
  the other one.
• Bring the file into the Student Viewing Area

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Training the Old Dogs continued

• When in doubt look at all of the possible choices
  and that will help out in most cases
• When ready update student view so they can view
  content
• Let them load up several documents in front of
  you
• Give them all of your phone numbers!
• Give lots of praise and positive feedback all
  Dogs love praise!

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Designers Mode-Note Choices
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Data!!

• Pilot Data
• Surveyed 7 Course Directors representing all
  pre-clinical courses
• 7/7 tenured full professors!
• Looked at pre and post training psychological
  issues

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IT Demographics

• All were ok with
• Word
• E-mail
• PowerPoint
• Some were ok with
• Excel (5/7)
• Ovid (4/7)

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IT Demographics- Continued

• None had experience with
• Dreamweaver
• Access
• SPSS

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Critical Psychological VariablesPre vs. Post
Training
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N7 All 12 year course directors
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Results One trainer!

• 2003-2004 academic year no pre-clinical courses
  on WebCT one course on Dreamweaver

• 2004-2005 Academic Year
• Anatomy histology
• Physiology Biochemistry
• Genetics intro to the patient
• Neuro-science Psychiatry
• Immuno Micro

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When done correctly, E-Course Hosting

• E-CMS enables Blooms Taxonomy
• E-CMS provides for differing learning styles
• E-CMS allows senior faculty to become involved in
  the business of medical schools
• E-CMS saves Medical schools considerable
  resources
• E-CMS improves school morale

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