
Take Two Pills and listen to this podcast
226 FOLLOWERS
Take Two Pills and listen to this podcast: teaching and learning in health, medicine, and more! Our goal is to connect innovative teachers in health sciences and provide practical and inspirational teaching advice. If you are teaching or want to teach in medicine, pharmacy, nursing, psychology, nutrition, physical or occupational therapy, or other health sciences-Two Pills Podcast is for you!
Take Two Pills and listen to this podcast
1y ago
Happy fall y’all! Two Pills Podcast is back from summer break and better than ever!
Resources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339583/
https://ep.bmj.com/content/105/4/236
Can you increase your confidence (intervals) in teaching biostatistics?!
Oh, biostatistics. A subject that strikes fear into anyone studying for an exam that contains them, someone presenting a journal club, or even analyzing your own data for research. Today, I am going to be describing a systematic approach to biostatistics that may help you in teaching the content and h ..read more
Take Two Pills and listen to this podcast
1y ago
Two Pills Tip: Video Assignments!
Having students create short, video content for online learning can increase STEM self‐efficacy (Campbell et al., 2020), and thus, making student content part of the course can be beneficial.
Students are (generally) VERY comfortable creating videos-Snapchat, TikTok, Reels, etc
Assign via link, immediately asks student to record, goes into folder you design for this assignment, student lists their unique link as answer to quiz
Practice, edit, assign short videos
Many different options-students can even ..read more
Take Two Pills and listen to this podcast
1y ago
Interview with Gina Thomas!
Gina brings more than 35 years of healthcare expertise to Nobis Rehabilitation Partners, LLC. Gina has held a number of clinical and leadership roles in non-profit acute care hospitals, for-profit, public, and private organizations.
Prior to Nobis, Gina served as the Chief Development Officer at Lumere where she built the commercial and marketing foundation. She brings a wealth of healthcare, clinical and operational knowledge and is known for 'connecting the dots' in healthcare. Prior to Lumere, Gina held business development and consulting roles at T ..read more
Take Two Pills and listen to this podcast
1y ago
How are you preparing for the semester?
Welcome to 2021! I hope you all had a great holiday! I ended up contracting Covid, so I have not been recording recently. Thankfully, my symptoms were mild and I am excited for the new year! I think many of us are cautiously optimistic and hopeful about what 2021 could bring.
As we start January, consider this question-how prepared are you for the semester? You may have taught the same content in previous years, but how could you improve it this year? Have you switched to remote learning? If you switched to remote learning in S ..read more
Take Two Pills and listen to this podcast
1y ago
Interview with Dr. Meredith White about the fun and function of using Bitmoji in the (virtual) classroom ..read more
Take Two Pills and listen to this podcast
1y ago
Conquer your presentations with Canva!
Resources:
https://www.canva.com/learn/10-ways-to-take-your-lessons-to-the-next-level-with-canva/
https://practicaledtech.com/2020/01/07/ten-things-you-can-do-with-canva-in-your-classroom/
https://www.bespokeclassroom.com/blog/2017/7/29/op660qadw8b5uzt4tq28ws3ryljfik
What is Canva?
Web/app based platform
Free, then pay for use of certain images, more templates, etc
Build your own worksheets/exercises
I use frequently for brief presentations. I search “blank presentation” and then modify the t ..read more
Take Two Pills and listen to this podcast
1y ago
Interview with Dr. Vanessa Holtgrave, PsyD, MS
Dr. Holtgrave is a professor of clinical and forensic psychology and a licensed clinical psychologist in the State of California. She has extensive experience in psychological assessment and diagnosis. She works closely with psychiatric medical professionals as part of a forensic team, provides consultations, and coordinates patient care with medical professionals in a psychiatric setting. Over the years she’s has worked within the prison system, juvenile detention facilities, and within community mental health. Questions? Comments? Recommend som ..read more
Take Two Pills and listen to this podcast
1y ago
Resources:
https://teacheveryday.com/escape-room-in-the-classroom/
https://www.edtechteam.com/blog/2017/08/break-out-of-classroom/
https://sites.google.com/site/digitalbreakouttemplate/home
Escape rooms are SO hot right now. I have seen diabetes escape rooms, gram positive infections escape rooms, and even interprofessional education escape rooms. They sound daunting and difficult to create. However, after making my first one, I can tell you-if you have worksheets, you can create an escape room!
Who: I piloted it in my elective, so ..read more
Take Two Pills and listen to this podcast
1y ago
Diversity in Patient Cases!
https://www.mededpublish.org/manuscripts/2705
https://www.aacp.org/article/diverse-universe
https://libguides.massgeneral.org/c.php?g=650990&p=4565317
Summer has arrived and it’s a great time to update your patient cases! If you think about the patient cases that you use in class, how much diversity is incorporated into them?
We know that for medical students, addressing diversity and cultural differences is imperative to ensure future physicians can competently care for the dynamic and increasingly diverse United States pop ..read more
Take Two Pills and listen to this podcast
1y ago
https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/courses/92710/pages/zoom-features-breakout-rooms
http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspire/2020/04/17/facilitating-active-learning-with-zoom/
https://athelp.sfsu.edu/hc/en-us/articles/360029698994-Using-breakout-rooms
Breakout!
Hope everyone is wrapping up Spring semester and graduation! Since we have all switched to teaching remotely, I thought it would be a good time to discuss active learning online. Today, we’ll discuss breakout rooms.
Breakout rooms are a fantastic way to initiate active learning in an online teaching envir ..read more