using twitter to teach public health to undergraduate medical students - # fluscenario
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Using Twitter to teach Public Health to undergraduate medical students - # fluscenario. Dr Ellie Hothersall Theme Lead for Public Health Deputy Convenor Systems in Practice Locum Consultant in Public Health [email protected] @ DundeePublicH. The challenge. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Using Twitter to teach Public Health to undergraduate medical students - #fluscenario
Dr Ellie HothersallTheme Lead for Public HealthDeputy Convenor Systems in PracticeLocum Consultant in Public Health
[email protected] @DundeePublicH
The challengePublic Health is “common sense”EasyConcepts rather than factsHard to assessDifficult to get engagement from majority
The solution?•Get ‘em while they’re young•Try to develop conversations not teach
facts•Make it relevant and engaging
#fluscenario•Online•Done in Private Study•Using familiar social media
•Low input required from staff•Peer support
Origins of #fluscenario•Based on previous work by nhssm.org•Original scenarios written by Mr Alex
Talbott and Dr Chloe Sellwood •Twitter chat with Social Media emphasis•Easy to tweak to student focus
•We gave the option of using Twitter or a secure blog or email for responding
Purpose of #fluscenario•To introduce you to pandemic ‘flu and
emergency planning•To develop an online learning conversation
•(To understand there is more to public health than drinking water and inequalities)
•(To understand how social media will influence your professional life)
OutlinePhase
1
• Background• Preparation
Phase 2
• Early outbreak• Communication and risk
Phase 3
• Late outbreak• Prevention and mitigation
Phase 4
• Wrap up• Lessons learned
OutlinePhase
1
• Background• Preparation
Phase 2
• Early outbreak• Communication and risk
Phase 3
• Late outbreak• Prevention and mitigation
Phase 4
• Wrap up• Lessons learned
Background/Early warningAssumptions in planning (e.g. 50% affected, 4% hospitalised)
Link to early BBC coverage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8017777.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8021483.stmSpread internationally: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8019364.stm
Questions for discussione.g. What could you be doing now to get ready?
OutlinePhase
1
• Background• Preparation
Phase 2
• Early outbreak• Communication and risk
Phase 3
• Late outbreak• Prevention and mitigation
Phase 4
• Wrap up• Lessons learned
OutlinePhase
1
• Background• Preparation
Phase 2
• Early outbreak• Communication and risk
Phase 3
• Late outbreak• Prevention and mitigation
Phase 4
• Wrap up• Lessons learned
OutlinePhase
1
• Background• Preparation
Phase 2
• Early outbreak• Communication and risk
Phase 3
• Late outbreak• Prevention and mitigation
Phase 4
• Wrap up• Lessons learned
What happened?•2,987 Tweets using the hashtag
#fluscenario•Contributions from staff, students, others•Mean number of Tweets per student was
13.8 (range 1-88). •Peak Twitter activity was in the first 12
hours, with >1,000 Tweets within 8 hours of launching the first scenario.
Evaluation•“did not understand the point of the
exercise”•“waste of time”
•“I enjoyed using twitter as a new way of teaching and I feel like I learnt a lot from the opportunity to discuss the flu scenario with my peers.”
“Whooping cough: Three more babies die in outbreak http://t.co/VXAIC5Bu #fluscenario”
“Reading about the emergence of multidrug-resistant TB and automatically relating this to the spread of #fluscenario. Hello Library Weekends.”
View from the outside
Next time?Better evaluationBuild ethics and communications in specificallyAsk students to identify key learning points
Get the students using Twitter earlier to “win them over” (e.g. #dundeeprn)
PLUS content/context analysis of tweets
Get involved!
Next run will be November 2013
#fluscenario@DundeePublicH