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Designing curriculum, teaching and assessment for a climate-changing world
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Bell, EJ, Designing curriculum, teaching and assessment for a climate-changing world, ANZAME09 Bridging Professional Islands Handbook, 30 June - 3 July 2009, Launceston, pp. 133. ISBN 978-0-9805787-0-6 (2009) [Conference Extract]
Abstract
Introduction/background:
A large body of research now exists on the subject of what climate change will mean for healthcare needs. There are also
calls for health education and training to better prepare health professionals for a climate-changing world. The keynote in
this literature is the importance of adaptive practices for responding to climate change. It is known that health professionals
will need to respond to a wide range of direct and indirect consequences of climate change, requiring not only content
knowledge but also flexibility and responsiveness to diverse regional conditions as part of complex health problem-solving—
adaptation. This will be particularly important in rural and remote education and training. However, little has been written
exploring what this means for the ‘bread and butter’ practices of curriculum design, teaching and assessment.
Purpose/objectives:
This presentation examines how adaptive practices for climate change can be a part of education and training programs for
health professionals.
Issues for exploration/ideas for discussion:
The presentation identifies clinical and non clinical dimensions of adaption for climate change, particularly as it relates to
rural and remote health practice. It provides practical suggestions for designing curriculum, teaching and assessment that
helps health professionals be adaptive in a climate-changing world. Using the education literature on best practice, as well
as available models such as the Primary Curriculum document of the Australian College of Rural and Remote medicine
(ACRRM) as a point of departure, it offers examples of competencies, teaching approaches, as well as assessment models,
useful to ensuring health professionals can adapt to the new conditions brought by climate change.
Conclusions:
Meeting the challenges of climate change in health professional education and training will involve a questioning of some
approaches to education and training and an embracing of others. The practical demands of designing curriculum, teaching
and assessment that helps health professionals adapt to climate change will reinforce and extend existing knowledge of best
practice in education and training.
Item Details
Item Type: | Conference Extract |
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Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Curriculum and pedagogy |
Research Field: | Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy |
Objective Division: | Health |
Objective Group: | Specific population health (excl. Indigenous health) |
Objective Field: | Rural and remote area health |
UTAS Author: | Bell, EJ (Associate Professor Erica Bell) |
ID Code: | 60683 |
Year Published: | 2009 |
Deposited By: | UTAS Centre for Rural Health |
Deposited On: | 2010-02-16 |
Last Modified: | 2010-02-16 |
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