Educational Development         . .
   

EDUCATIONAL CONSULTING

The Office of Teacher & Educational Development provides consulting services to assist faculty in developing and implementing effective teaching/learning experiences, including:

  • Curriculum development

  • How people learn

  • Creating learning objectives

  • Using Fink's and Bloom's taxonomies of learning

  • Developing and implementing a lecture or presentation

  • Using PowerPoint and an Audience Response System to promote and enhance learning

  • Developing handouts that promote learning

  • Activating learning in large group sessions

  • Observing teaching sessions and providing feedback

  • Giving constructive feedback

  • Writing narrative evaluations to document student performance
To inquire about consulting services, please contact Deana Richter, drichter@salud.unm.edu.
 

Curriculum Development Project:

Check out Poverty & Health Curriculum and Curriculum Development Resources at www.nhchc.org/UNMSOM/unmsom.html

Teacher & Educational Development has been involved as part of a transdisciplinary team to design, integrate and implement a four-year poverty and health curriculum that will prepare tomorrow’s clinicians to effectively address the profound impact of poverty on individual and population health, resulting in advocacy for patients and system change, skills working in transdisciplinary care teams, and enhanced sensitivity to and care of patients experiencing poverty.

The design team invited the Healthcare for the Homeless Clinicians' Network (HCHCN) to partner with them, and an advisory committee was created by HCHCN to share its expertise and review and comment on the curriculum during its multi-phase development. We hope to reap the benefits of this collaboration for years to come as we work to educate health care professionals and others about the unique concerns of caring and advocating for impoverished people.

Few programs exist in academic institutions across the nation to enable medical students to study, develop and implement solutions to the healthcare barriers that many of our indigent patients encounter. For this reason, HCHCN has published the curriculum and curriculum development resources from the UNM SOM design team on its website to serve as a national model. The information can be accessed at www.nhchc.org/UNMSOM/unmsom.html.

This work has been presented in poster sessions at several professional meetings:

The Network, Bogota, Columbia, 9/08
National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice, Washington, D.C., 10/08
Medical Education for the 21st Century: Teaching for Health Equity, Havana, Cuba, 12/08
 
Educational Development Tools: