2014 Fall Colloquium
Colloquium: How to Utilize Brain and Cognitive Mechanisms to Improve Training (Part 1)
Education needs to produce mental representations that are most appropriate without creating cognitive load beyond the brain capacity to process information.
Quantitative approaches can address selective attention, and the creation of flexible knowledge that can transfer and generalize to clinical practice. The key for such
enhanced learning is the ability to take our understanding of the human brain and translate it to practical ways to develop and deliver training. This talk will illustrate and
demonstrate the power of this brain-friendly approach. Providing such healthcare education is critical to reduce medical errors and increase patient care and safety.
Objectives:
Describe methods of producing mental representations without creating cognitive overload.
Discuss methods for stimulating the creation of flexible knowledge that can transfer and generalize clinical practice.
Describe the power of utilizing a brain-friendly approach to providing healthcare education designed to reduce medical errors and increase patient safety.
This course has been approved by the Inland Counties Emergency Medical Agency for 3 hours of instructor-based continuing education, through the LLU Emergency
Medical Care Program, Provider #62-0004.
Complimentary
Sep 18, 2014
0900-1200
Colloquium: Giving the Learners a Memorable Experience That They Will Remember and Will Impact Their Behavior (Part 2)
A great deal of what we teach is not retained in the long term, and even when it is, it does not impact behavior. This is especially true in the healthcare environment when
often there are competing cognitive demands as well as time pressure. The question is how to provide the learners with a learning experience that will create long lasting
and salient mental representations. Achieving this not only depends on encoding specificity and other cognitive mechanisms, but also by providing emotional (maybe even
traumatizing)_ learning experiences. This talk will present the problems, the approach, and demonstrate its effectiveness.
Objectives:
Describe strategies to promote retention of information
Discuss methods utilized to impact behavior through effective teaching
Describe the provision of learning experiences by encoding specificity and other cognitive mechanisms
This course has been approved by the Inland Counties Emergency Medical Agency for 4 hours of instructor-based continuing education, through the LLU Emergency
Medical Care Program, Provider #62-0004.
Complimentary
Sep 18, 2014
1300-1700
Colloquium: Using Technology to Enhance Learning: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
Technology is highly used in education and training to the level that it is hard to find learning that does not involved the use of technology. Such integration offers great
opportunities. However, it poses many challenges, and often the technology does not enhance the learning (sometimes it even degrades it). The use of technology, per se,
is not beneficial for training. The question is whether to use it, when to use it, and how to use it. Furthermore, the effects of adopting such a wide use of technology can be
2014 Fall Colloquium
harmful. This talk will present the wonderful things that technology offers as a tool, but will illustrate how (& why) it can also reduce the effectiveness of learning.
Objectives:
Describe challenges associated with integration of technology
Discuss best practices used to determine the appropriate use of technology to enhance training
Describe the benefits of technology when utilized correctly
This course has been approved by the Inland Counties Emergency Medical Agency for 3 hours of instructor-based continuing education, through the LLU Emergency
Medical Care Program, Provider #62-0004.
Complimentary
Sep 19, 2014
0900-1200
Colloquium: Cognitive Principles to Develop and Deliver Effective Healthcare Education (Part 4)
Cognitive principles can inform education, from complex issues relating to metacognition and cognitive awareness, to more basic issues of "how to best present
information so it is easily encoded by the brain". This talk will address a variety of issues, such as motivation, interactivity, gaming, and simulations, and show how
cognitive principles can be applied to make such training more effective. Furthermore, novel approaches to reduce medical errors and to engage and challenge learners
will be presented. These all derive from a cognitive informed approach and the development and delivery of brain-friendly learning.
This course has been approved by the Inland Counties Emergency Medical Agency for 4 hours of instructor-based continuing education, through the LLU Emergency
Medical Care Program, Provider #62-0004.
Complimentary
Sep 19, 2014
1300-1700