Ethics in Healthcare

Description:

This learning design focuses on enhancing students' knowledge, skills and application of healthcare ethics in pre-service health degrees to foster critical thinking and creative problem solving.
The class on ethics runs over three weeks online for students enrolled in a number of pre-service health courses and follows the same design each lesson. Each lesson scaffolds from the last and case studies become increasingly complex. Each class is offered synchronously for two hours and involves working both in professional groups (students in the same degree together) and interprofessional (a mix of allied health disciplines in the one group). The main part of the classes is recorded so students who can not attend can benefit from the learning (breakout rooms are not recorded).
Each class is preceded by module content that includes readings, case studies, short, recorded lectures (8 – 12 minutes) with questions after each resource to reinforce learning using H5P and other tools. During class students are asked to answer questions using mentimeter and add longer answers using padlets as required.
The model is based on pedagogic principles derived from flipped classroom, just-in-time teaching, peer instruction, and active learning (Al-Samarraie et al., 2020). Further, as the students are interacting in the lesson at different times it also using polysynchronous learning and SAMR model is used as well (Dalgarno & Webster, 2015; Puentedura, 2014).