MCI Revised Basic Course on Medical Education Technologies. Growth Avenues in Medical Education and Educational Networking for Growth

1. Educational Networking for
Growth
Dr. Z. Zayapragassarazan
Associate Professor of Educational Techonology
Department of Medical Education
JIPMER
Puducherry-6
E-mail: zprazan@yahoo.co.in
9894846929

2. Objectives
• Understand avenues for growth in
education
• Educational networking
• Create networks among MEUs
• Making networking work for you and
your institution

3. Growth Avenues in Medical Education
Best practices in medical education
• Selection of Students
• Innovations in curriculum
• Teaching learning Materials & Methods
• Teaching learning environments
• Assessment methods & QP setting
• Continuing medical education
• Inter-professionalism in medical education
• Community oriented medical education
• Student support services

4. Growth Avenues in ME
• Quality assurance in medical education
• Faculty development and capacity building
• Collaboration among medical schools
• Application of ICT in medical education
• Educational administration & leadership
• Accreditation

5. Choosing a New Avenue

6. SWOT Analysis

7. Networking
Networking refers to the art of
creating interdependent or
interconnected groups or systems for
the mutual benefit of all members of
the system

8. Networking in ME
The conscious creation of
interconnected relationships among
various students, teachers, and other
stakeholders with similar interests,
either directly or through
intermediaries, for the purpose of
achieving common or individual goals,
sharing resources, as well as social
communications.

9. Community of Practice
• A ‘community of practice’ is a group
of people who share a concern or a
passion for something they do, and
learn how to do it better as they
interact regularly.
• Reflects social nature of human
learning.

10. Functioning of a Educational Network
• Identify the area of expertise
• Decide what is to be shared for
expansion of existing knowledge and
creation of new knowledge
• Whom you want as members?
• Operating modality-Team
• Best practices-CoP

11. Network of people

14. New Avenues

15. Helps to update
(an effective educational tool)

17. Professional Growth
Quality

19. Activity
MEU Networking

20. Take Home Message
• Medical Educators no longer need to feel
as if they are teaching in isolation.
When networked they can communicate
instantly, and directly, with the experts
in their fields and grow in all respects.
• Let us network for our professional
growth and development and make our
presence felt professionally.

21. Thanks