Just Picture It
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Episode #2
Healthcare Education
Healthcare Education
The second episode of Just Picture It features Valerie Landau, Director of Assessment, and Penny Bamford, Academic Vice President, of Samuel Merritt University, who have developed a new program to assess their University’s healthcare education. Their program helps the institution visualize its goals and objectives and gain a better understanding of what is being learnt and taught to their students. Through this program, they have opened up a new way of learning and teaching healthcare, as it engages with all senses, providing new insights into data and information.
Entire episode
Divided into 3 shorter segments
Valerie Landau and Penny Bamford discuss changes they’ve made to healthcare education, moving from traditional assessment to visual methods to better understand what’s being taught and learnt.
Landau and Bamford demonstrate their new visually based program that helps the University monitor all of its objectives, and provides a way of connecting stated goals and reality.
The new method of assessment at Samuel Merritt University has changed the faculty’s approach to healthcare education. In the future, it may also engage students in the same way.