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Dot Board Idea!

I believe the dot board should be used more and can be used in alot of settings. The board allows you to keep track of what everyone is doing so even if you forgot what a person was doing you will always know. This also gives you a steady pace to go by in a medical setting to check on everyone.

Creative teaching

I am so excited about this course. I will adapt and use many of these strategies in my clinical setting. I am so motivated to use some of these great ideas. Sometimes I struggle to come up with new ideas, this will be a great help. Thanks

Interactive

This lesson provides good examples to enhance student interaction in the learning process and stimulate critical thinking skills.

dont encourage the students

make sure that you dont encourage the students to confront real staff whome they will see demonstrating poor practice

eye contact

Eye contact is very important also. Facial expressions between employer/employee.I learn to read into expressions also I think

The Dot Watch

This is a good idea I'm going to try, but going to put dots on bottom of ID/name tag. That way when I pass them I can see whats going on without asking.

Gestures

I think this can be adapted to dental clinical situations since so much of dentistry relies upon non verbal communicating.

Prepare and Listen

When speaking the the students about different types of instruments, make sure they are prepared at all times and thay they are listening. There make come a time when they have to think fast and make quick moves regarding to what they have heard.

Sense and identify

Closing your eyes open and feel the insruments being able to identify according to different parts of the instruments

Gestures

I found the idea creating gestures for the lab very interesting and think that I will incorporate it in my lab.

WIll do!

These will be implemented in the classroom setting since we do not go with our students into the field on their externship. However it can be used during student service learnings!

Facial Feedback Exercise

I appointed a student to take pictures of students acting mad, happy, sad, etc. At the time of the discussion regarding the facial feedback theory I showed the students expression and asked the class to identify the facial feature. It kept the students attention and help them personalize the lesson.

dots

I like the dot idea. Does it work?

Dots

I like this idea, using red and blue dots.

Gestures/Signs

I really like the idea of using gestures to communicate to the students during treatment of patients. By communicating with signs and gestures the instructor gets the point across without embarrasing the student or conveying to the patient that the student doesn't know what they are doing. It is a nice way for the student to get feedback without the patient knowing that something is wrong. I use it alot with my students and it seems to work very well.

RE: DOTS

This is a very interesting method. As an Army Reserve Medical Officer, I can utilize this "DOTS" system for various training modules as well as classroom simulation. A VERY interesting, inexpensive, and simple technique for training!

CLINICAL INSTRUCTION

Students sometimes experience a cultural shock when they are placed in a clinical environment. How do instructors prepare them for dealing with employees in the clinical setting? Especially those who are not student friendly.

teaching methods and strategies

I think using the bingo would be good for my group of students who are learing ICD-9, CPT and HCPCS coding. I think this would work quite well and be enjoyable by the students

DOTS

I like the idea of the DOTS for my own use as an instructor. It gets busy trying to have all of my students complete their "skill assessment check-off" lists. I think being able to quickly scan the classroom to see the status of completion, rather than having to stop, ask, and do a head count, would be a great time saver. It might also help those few students who like to wait until the last 10 minutes of class to complete a skill get selected to complete it earlier in the day.

Dots and interaction with staff

The idea of dots is a unique way in which the instructor can monitor the student's abilities in different skill sets. This places the focus on the student to obtain the required competency skills checked off without direct supervision from an instructor. I also found it quite informative when discussing staff and the procedures that are being performed on patients. While instructing students in the textbook manner, oftentimes in a clinical setting they may encounter procedures being performed that are not neccesssarily by the book. This allows the student to reinforce their skill sets when performing tasks while seeing alternative methods of getting these tasks achieved. The student should always be aware that by no means would they attempt to show or correct their perceptor the textbook fashion of doing their job. This would obviously be out of line with channels of communication.