The world may be getting smaller, but it’s not getting simpler. In the lead up to the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) annual conference 2016, we are working to prepare sessions fit for an international audience and our globalised world.
A symposium I was part of last year at AMEE on “Social accountability: medical students as leaders for sustainable healthcare” addressed a new and challenging topic from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Yet there was one major aspect of that symposium that we wish we’d done better: creating an environment for active participation, group work, and networking.
This year I’m part of a team running a symposium titled “Build your own: an environmentally sustainable curriculum.” We want to stimulate the participation and learning not only of participants physically present in the room, but also of participants who join us via videoconferencing. While we regularly engage students or colleagues in a classroom, we have less experience with and face more of a challenge connecting across the internet.
There are at least two good reasons why we think it’s important to enable colleagues not physically present at AMEE to join our session....
Read more on the BMJ blog... http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2016/07/04/collaborating-across-continents-what-is-the-best-that-technology-can-offer/
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