Jil Fairclough, Medical School Librarian and Technology Enhanced Learning Lead
The BSMS Library Service often gets asked to advise on what images can be used when creating online learning resources. Here is a quick guide on finding and using images.
Questions to ask yourself are:
This year has seen the most significant growth in e-learning resources in the history of BSMS.
Part of this growth was to support the move of obs & gynae and paeds into Year 4 of the undergraduate medicine curriculum. This necessitated more specialty rotations of slightly shorter length with smaller group sizes. Several of the specialty rotation leads turned to technology-enhanced learning (TEL) tools to deliver the learning content for students whilst maximising their clinical exposure. Most of these did this by providing online video-based information on core topics that students viewed before the weekly seminar. This means they could spend the face-to-face time focussing on deeper learning. Here’s an example of what has been produced:
| End of life care | Two web-based tutorials providing students with information and a case-scenario | PowerPoint; Adobe Captivate |
| Aspects of labour | Four web-based tutorials with specially-produced clinical skills videos and quizzes | Clinical Media Centre (BSUH); Adobe Captivate |
| Neurology and neurosurgery | Nine screencasts* of core topics in the neurology rotation followed by self-test quizzes | Camtasia Studio; Studentcentral quiz tool |
| Sexual Health | Seven screencasts* of core topics in the HIV/GUM rotation, and four supplementary ones, followed by self-test quizzes | Camtasia Studio; Studentcentral quiz tool |
| Musculoskeletal medicine | Two self-test quizzes and two videos of interviews with a patient around their care and experience | Studentcentral quiz tool Video capture and edit |
*Recordings of teaching presentations made by the clinical lecturers themselves
We will showcase some of these in future posts with more detail to give insight into how busy clinical faculty found using the technology and how they feel it has impacted teaching. It might give you some ideas as to what you could do…
Health Education England (HEE) has made the huge collection of e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) resources available through OpenAthens. Previously, it was only available to those with an NHS email address, which not all our students or teachers have. This change means that anyone with an OpenAthens account, or who is eligible for one (check your eligibility here), can now access the wide range of healthcare training packages.
eThe LfH Hub comprises over 30 online training sessions that “enhance traditional learning, support existing teaching methods, and provide a valuable reference point. They are designed and built to be engaging and interactive, using quality images, video, audio and animation to help trainees learn and retain knowledge. Content is presented using various templates such as ‘real-life’ scenarios, case studies and ‘knowledge bites’.”
Our medical students already use the Safeguarding Adults and the Safeguarding Children programmes. Might there be a topic that could be useful in your teaching?