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Welcome to the first issue of ELM NEWS for 2016

Welcome everyone to the beginning of another exciting ELM year. At the official welcome for our new Year Two ELM students the Dean of OMS and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Health Sciences, Professor Peter Crampton, noted the 2016 second year intake is the first to closely match the wider population demographically in terms of Mãori and Pacific numbers. This is a great achievement and bodes well for the future of New Zealand’s medical health workforce. For more see medinews

It is great to see OUMSA and ELM staff working hard to provide a wide range of activities and support networks for all students over the coming weeks and their time at medical school. 2016 also sees the NZMSA Annual Conference being hosted in Dunedin and this will be an opportunity for students to meet and share their experiences with their colleagues from Auckland Medical School. I wish all staff and students a successful and productive year ahead.

Grant Butt, Associate Dean and Director, ELM.

ELM Staff News
Rosie Dunn – Administrator for Early Professional Practice (EPE) Year three. Rosie is providing support for the EPE programme while Georgina McArthur is away on parental leave. Rosie is a recent graduate from the UK and has settled in well in her role. Rosie can be contacted on (479) 7957, email: rosie.dunn@otago.ac.nz and her office is in the ELM offices, ground floor of the Sayers Building.

Dr Anu Shinnamon – New tutor in ELM - Anu has gained extensive experience in a wide range of professional activities since graduating from Auckland Medical School in 2007; including providing advanced wilderness life support as part of her work while based at Grey Base Hospital on the West Coast. Anu is teaching in ELM as a tutor for the Clinical Skills programme module.

Aimee Ward (Lead tutor – Cases Y3) was given a warm send off last Friday as she and husband are expecting their new addition to their family very soon. Julia Wilson will be taking on a dual role of lead tutor for both Year 2 and 3 while Aimee is on parental leave absence during semester one.

Associate Professor Ralph Pinnock of the Department of Women's and Children's Health, Paediatrics & Child Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, has been appointed as the Associate Dean for Medical Education for DSM and ELM. Ralph will be attending committees etc after the mid semester break. Ralph is also a tutor in ELM and one of his research interests is clinical reasoning.

Tutor orientation 2016
The annual tutor orientation was well received, as tutors began preparing for their small group sessions. The individual programme modules (EPE, Clinical Skills and Integrated Cases) each held their own tutor briefings and Tony Barrett, Education Advisor for ELM, organised a well attended session under the theme of reflection.

Thanks to Raewyn Lesa, Mary Furnari, Sue Walthert and John Egbuji for their excellent presentations.

Attendees are encouraged to provide feedback on their experience:
COMPLETE FEEDBACK SURVEY

Teaching & Learning Staff Development 2016

Teaching Matters - Teaching Matters is a series of events facilitated by the OMS Education Units, open to all staff interested in teaching and learning with a particular focus on health professional education.

For further details download the information sheet (PDF) or contact lyn.smith@otago.ac.nz to register.
ELM Journal Club and Research Forum 2016
Sayers Board room at 1:00pm until 1:50pm

March 9 (Wed)     Research Forum
April 13 (Wed) and 14 (Thurs)         Journal Club (same article)
May 18 (Wed)     Research Forum
June 16 (Thurs) and 22 (Wed)         Journal Club (same article)
July 27 (Wed)      Research Forum
Aug 10 (Wed) and 18 (Thurs)        Journal Club (same article)
Sept 21 (Wed)     Research Forum

Contact: Education Advisor Tony Barrett for details: tony.barrett@otago.ac.nz

MB ChB Assessment update
During 2014 OMS collaborated with MDANZ and eighteen other medical schools to create and review a set of 60 multiple choice benchmarking questions, selections of which were included in final or penultimate year examinations of a total of 3,994 students, including our fifth year medical students. Responses from de-identified students were collated and analysed, and a final report released last year.

MASC are encouraged by the results of OMS students, and continue to collaborate in the MDANZ Assessment Benchmarking project.
Mike Tweed, Chair MASC December 2015

Module name changes: EPE and Psychological Medicine
The Medical Curriculum Committee recently approved the changes to two important components of the ELM curriculum. Healthcare in the Community (HIC) is now Early Professional Practice (EPE) to better reflect the module's curriculum outcomes and the Behavioural Medicine block module is now called Psychological Medicine.

Med Moodle update
Users of the medical programme content management system Moodle will have noticed the new look to medmoodle following the upgrade over the summer break. The layout is designed to be more intuitive and provide a better platform for accessing lecture material and communicating with colleagues and staff.

MedMoodle provides medical students and staff of the University of Otago Medical School with access to communication tools, course materials, discussion forums, online assessment and many other features to help manage their study or teaching. If you need help with Med Moodle, please email med.moodle@otago.ac.nz.

To log into Moodle go to: https://medschool.otago.ac.nz/
(Username and password required)

Medical Library Changes

Staff and students using the medical library in the Sayers Building will have noticed some changes, following the decision to combine the Dental Library into a new health sciences facility. The OU Health Sciences Library is also currently undertaking modifications to space on the third floor to provide more study areas and desks.

For further details: Read the Health Science LIbrary Communication (PDF)

For other news and library contacts see the Health Sciences Blog:
https://healthscilib.wordpress.com/

The newly refurbished third floor of the Health Sciences LIbrary

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