Health Professions Education Exhibit

By Lea Mabry

On January 21, 2005, the UAMS Teaching Scholars Health Professions Education Exhibit took place in the College of Public Health. The Exhibit featured two exhibit areas: the Educational Research Poster Exhibit and the Teaching with Technology Exhibit.

UAMS faculty participated to showcase their educational research efforts and to demonstrate how technology is used to enhance instruction. Faculty from UA Fayetteville’s Educational Technology Program in the College of Education and Health Professions and UALR’s Scholarly Technology program and the UALR Department of Higher Education were invited to judge the two exhibit areas. Two professional development awards were presented in each exhibit area.

The exhibits featured 19 posters and 8 educational technology projects presented by faculty members from all five colleges at UAMS. The exhibit also featured technology demonstrations and displays of academic services available from UAMS Creative Services, Library Services, and the Teaching with Technology Committee. Impatica, Inc. also participated by sending a representative and providing a license for Impatica for PowerPoint as a door prize. WebCT also provided door prizes.

The judges were impressed with all the projects, and they had a difficult time choosing just one winner in each category. The posters and projects chosen for the professional development awards as well as the judge’s honorable mention choices are:

Educational Research Poster Exhibit 

1^st Place Award Winners:

 “Development of a Scale to Evaluate Patient-Centeredness of Physicians’ Interviewing Skills” - Debra Simmons, M.D., Kara Belue, M.D., James Clardy, M.D., Patricia O’Sullivan, EdD*; COM, Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry, and OED 

“Using Standardized Alzheimer’s Disease Patients and Families to Improve Clinical Management by Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Students” – Richard I. Zraick, Ph.D., and Terri J. Hutton, M.F.A., CHRP, Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology 

Honorable Mention:

"The Contribution of Self-Efficacy Perceptions to Medical School Success: Implications for Teaching" - L.J. Perrot, M.D., J.D., COM, Department of Pathology, Linda A. Deloney Ed.D., COM, Dept of Radiology, and Virginia A. Johnson, Ed.D., CRC, OED

"Benefits of a Sexual Harassment Workshop for Medical School Faculty and Students" -  L.J. Perrot, M.D., J.D., COM, Department of Pathology, Linda A. Deloney, Ed.D., COM, Dept. of Radiology, and Virginia A. Johnson, Ed.D, CRC, OED

Teaching with Technology Exhibit

Best Practices Category

1^st Place Award Winner:

“Environmental Health Course Designed for Distance Learning” -Tom Rimmer, ScD, CIH, COPH, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health

Honorable Mention:

“Teaching in the Operating Room with Personal Digital Assistants” - Frank E. Block, Jr., M.D., COM, Department of Anesthesiology

Innovation in Teaching with Technology Category

1^st Place Award Winner:

“Patient Simulator Program in Medical Physiology” -James N. Pasley, Ph.D., and Jehad Albataineh, M.D., COM, Departments of Physiology and Biophysics and Anesthesiology

Honorable Mention:

“Internet-based 90-second Multimedia Student Training Vignettes for Ophthalmic and Otic Administration Techniques” -Ross E. Vanderbush, Pharm.D., and Donna West, Ph.D., COP, Department of Pharmacy Practice 

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