Westmead Precinct Education Hub
The Westmead Precinct Education Hub is a collaborative partnership in education between Western Sydney Local Health District (LHD), The Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN), the University of Sydney and other key stakeholders at Westmead precinct.
About the Westmead Precinct Education Hub
The Education Hub focus is on building educator capacity and providing opportunity to initiate collaborative partnerships that support growth on the precinct.
Activities include:
- Education hub grand rounds.
- Sydney.Concepts.Westmead - an ongoing series of conversations between researchers across the depth and breadth of the University of Sydney and colleagues from the Westmead precinct.
- Variety education capacity building activities for educators.
- Professional standards for health profession educators.
- Collaborations with external organisations to provide courses for educators.
Asking the Question training is a perfect course for administration officers who undertake screening for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin as part of their role.
The program will:
- provide an increased understanding of the NSW Health policy PD2012_042 - Recording of Information of Patients and Clients
- provide you with strategies to effectively implement the ‘Asking the Question’ screening
- tell you what to do when someone says yes
- help you develop skills to manage challenging responses
- answer some frequently asked questions.
Session times
All sessions are held on Wednesdays between 2:30pm to 4pm.
Bookings are essential, to secure your spot, email Monica Hughes, Education Hub Manager at Monica.hughes@health.nsw.gov.au
Grand rounds
Medical education grand rounds are a series of regular sessions to enhance teaching skills and clinical-education for health professionals.
Delivering education during a pandemic: what we learned and what have we done, examples from Westmead Precinct
Presenters:
- Jane Bolster NE WSLHD
- Dr Jennifer Davids Ed Consultant WSLHD
- Carrie Alvaro NE WSLHD
- Jane Bolster NE WSLHD
- Cyd Quintans NE SCHN
- Vicki Lilley NE SCHN
Education Grand Rounds—Virtual Series
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Forced Migration and Critical Human Rights: Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges
This presentation looks at how countries around the world respond to forced migration. It explains what forced migration is, its causes and different types. This context helps us understand the impact on people’s educational experiences.
Forced migrants are often treated as outsiders. They are excluded from mainstream discussions, which affects the education of both individuals and communities.
By framing the discussion around super diversity, human rights and social justice education, the presentation challenges these exclusionary views. It aims to build a narrative that recognises and values the experiences of people affected by displacement.
Presenter
Associate Professor Naidoo lectures in social justice education at Western Sydney University. She has a flourishing research profile on equity and access in disadvantaged communities both nationally and internationally.
She has made a significant contribution to refugee education as socially just practice/praxis through the lens of forced migration. She has won multiple Australian teaching awards including an international award from Duke University, North Carolina, for her outstanding work as an educator.
She studied forced migration at Oxford University and was one of eight distinguished keynote speakers invited by the prestigious Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to speak on refugee education.
She served on the NSW refugee resettlement roundtable and her work has been used by the Department of Social Services in its cultural orientation program for newly arrived Syrian refugees.
Part 1
Part 2
Forced Migration and Critical Human Rights: Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges - part 2
Read transcriptOne small step for interdisciplinary education, one giant leap for Westmead Precinct
Industry and Community Project Units (ICPU) are a Sydney University initiative, designed to provide students with authentic industry-based problems to work on in interdisciplinary teams.
Piloted for the first time this year, an ICPU was run at Westmead Hospital.
Students from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds worked with Western Sydney LHD on the problem of how emerging technologies may impact the future health workforce.
Lorraine Smith (Sydney University), Carla Edwards (Industry Partner - WSLHD) and Chris Ganora (Project Supervisor) will present on the educational underpinnings, industry involvement and student process (and outcomes) of this project.
Presenters:
- Associate Professor Lorraine Smith: is an Associate Director with the DVC-Education (Enterprise and Engagement) team. She is a research psychologist and conducts research into patient experiences of long-term conditions, with 25 years teaching experience across nursing and allied health professions. Lorraine was Associate Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Pharmacy 2015-2017.
- Carla Edwards: is the Director of Redevelopment Redesign and Transformation, Western Sydney Local Health District. Carla is the project industry partner and is participating in another project over the coming months on how to maximise wayfinding across the Westmead Precinct.
- Dr Chris Ganora: is a General Practitioner and has worked in numerous clinical roles throughout rural and urban settings, including Aboriginal health, addiction medicine and more recently in adolescent health. He is also involved with GP registrar teaching. He works clinically as a GP and is a lecturer in General Practice at Westmead Clinical School.
Grand Rounds - Education
Read transcriptDeveloping capacity in paediatric palliative care: a blueprint for building interdisciplinary clinical supervision for a team
This presentation will outline the training and development plan implemented at Bear Cottage to develop the capacity of the team to facilitate a comprehensive clinical supervision program for their entire staff. Evaluation methods and outcomes will be discussed.
Presenter
Meg started her career as a speech pathologist, before moving into student education, allied health professional education and management. She holds post graduate qualifications in research, adult education, health management and simulation. She holds international credentials in clinical supervision facilitation and simulation. She is currently employed by the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network Education team.
Developing capacity in Paediatric Palliative Care
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Increasing student engagement with personalised feedback
Feedback has been identified as one of the factors in a learning experience that may have a positive impact on student engagement. However, the provision of high-quality student feedback usually requires deep insight on how students learn.
Can we combine the information obtained by technology mediation in learning environments to facilitate the provision of high-quality feedback? In this talk we will explore ways to establish this connection and possible approaches to improve the dialogue between students and instructors.
Presenter
Professor Pardo is an Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Information Engineering; Deputy-Director, Centre for Research in Learning and Innovation; Co-Director, Faculty of Engineering and IT Education Innovation Unit, University of Sydney. Vice President, Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR).
Abelardo’s research interests include the design and deployment of technology to increase the understanding and improve digital learning experiences.
More specifically, his work examines the areas of learning analytics, personalised active learning, and technology for student support. He is the author of over 150 research papers in scholarly journals and international conferences in the area of educational technology.
Grand Rounds Professor Abelardo Pardo
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Technology-rich Learning Environments in Health Professions Education: Lessons learned during the last two decades
Presenter
Professor Spallek serves as the Pro-Dean at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Dentistry where his key responsibilities include the consolidation of the dental school’s operations and developing the strategic plan for the school in alignment with the strategic plan of the University.
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Getting started in educational research: Tips for clinicians and educators
How do you turn a good idea into a research project – or publication? And what might be a good idea in the first place?
Research in health professions education can seem like another world to clinical teachers and educators.
This presentation will cover practical tips and strategies for those new to educational research, with examples to help you work up your own project.
Presenter
Associate Dean, Learning and Innovation, Professor of Medical Education, Western Sydney University. Honorary Medical Officer, Sydney Children’s Hospital Network (Westmead).
Wendy was Associate Director of Education at SCHN (Westmead), before taking up lead academic roles in the Western Sydney University medical school. She is widely published in qualitative, clinical and educational research, and is an editor for BMC Medical Education and Perspectives on Medical Education. Her interests include faculty development and consumer perspectives on illness and healthcare.
Professor Wendy Hu
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Mentoring for professionalisation beyond initial training: a partnership between academia and a regulatory body
| Session title | Presenter |
|---|---|
| Offering the NSW Health: Health Leadership Program | Kath Asher and Dani Feuerlicht (SCHN) |
| This is NOT a Simulation: Preparing for a pandemic | Caleb Lapointe & Dr Christine Lau (SCHN) |
Delivering education during a pandemic
Read transcriptTowards an understanding of the nature of wisdom in clinical medicine
In order to help us understand the significance of wisdom in health care the presenter will take us on a journey to explore the following:
- to review how 'wisdom' is commonly characterised
- to present a conception of wisdom based on a comprehensive understanding of the particulars of clinical cases
- to consider how these notions might be explored further in a research agenda.
Presenter
Associate Professor Donald Boudreau is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, a specialist in respiratory medicine, and a faculty member of the Institute of Health Sciences Education at McGill University. His area of clinical interest has been in sarcoidosis.
At the Institute, he is co-chair of the committee responsible for the scientific peer reviews of research proposals. He has extensive experience in undergraduate medical education and is a former Associate Dean of Medical Education and Student Affairs. He is also Professor of Medicine at the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, a foundation whose mission is the promotion of humanism in medicine.
Dr. Boudreau’s current educational and research interests are in professionalism, professional identity formation, selected aspects of the clinical method, clinical wisdom, and phronesis. He is co-author of the book Physicianship and the Rebirth of Medical Education published by Oxford University Press in 2018.
Towards an understanding of the nature of wisdom in clinical medicine
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Schwartz Rounds: Group reflection to enhance relationships between staff and patients: a UK national realist evaluation 2014-2017
Presenter
Professor Maben is a nurse and social scientist, and her research focuses on supporting staff to care well for patients. Jill qualified as a registered nurse at Addenbrookes in Cambridge and studied History at UCL, before undertaking her Masters in Nursing at King's College London and completing her PhD at the University of Southampton. She completed her PGCE at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2007.
Research and Education Prof Jill Maben
Read transcriptLatest outputs
Our open access systematic review of the Schwartz Rounds literature and scoping reviews of eleven other comparator interventions:
Watch our film Understanding Schwartz Rounds: Findings from a National Evaluation which embeds a short round in it and includes NIHR research findings.
Understanding Schwartz Rounds
Read transcriptUnderstanding, Implementing and Sustaining Schwartz Rounds: An Organisational Guide to Implementation (2018). The link takes you to a four-question quick survey so we can understand who is downloading / using the guide- once this is completed you will have access to the PDF.