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We feel that audiovisual material is a very useful and important teaching and learning
resource. However, these vodcasts are poorly created, artificial, condescending to the
audience for whom they are directed and clichéd. They are ineffective as a teaching tool.
A better resource for example, is the TV show Scrubs, which covers similar issues, but in
a clever and accessible way. Scrubs has been used as a discussion point in JMO
teaching. These vodcasts feel like a bad day-time melo-drama. They need to be more
realistic and applicable to everyday situations for them to be an appropriate and useful
(and actually watched!) resource.
Action:
Supervision group to consider conducting a survey of clinical supervisors.
Ricki Sayers to compile a report on the projects of all the working groups.
Education group to send lecture series to hospitals before term one 2011 for
implementation.
7. Orientation week planning – Dr Lucy Cho, Craig Bingham, Dawn Webb.
Craig Bingham demonstrated a powerpoint presentation that will be used during
orientation week.
8. The TALL MAN project
Daniel Lalor from the Clinical Excellence Commission presented on a project to
investigate typographic methods of preventing drug name confusion (“TALL MAN”
lettering uses selective capitalisation to highlight distinguishing syllables in similar
drug names).
Mr Lalor sought the Forum’s advice on the best method of gathering a large group of
JMOs for testing of possible interventions.
Mr Lalor’s presentation is attached.
9. Between the Flags
Dr Charles Pain and Ms Colette Duff from the Clinical Excellence Commission
presented on the Between the Flags project.
Dr Pain observed that: “Clinicians are against standardisation, but one of the things
that contributes to patient safety is having a standard approach.” He observed that
the younger generation of clinicians were more positive about standardisation.
A free-ranging discussion of the effect of “Between the Flags” followed.
JMOs reported issues with being called every time a patient reaches the yellow zone:
eg, the patient’s blood pressure drops by one point with no other issues being
present. They feel the nurses rely too much on the black and white of the forms. Dr
Pain: “standardisation and clinical judgement are not opposed to each other.” It was
suggested that there was a learning period involved and that the correct
interpretation of the “Between the Flags” guidelines would take time to learn.
Dr Pain said that there were 65,000 NSW Health staff to train in the DETECT program
for managing the deteriorating patient — a project that would clearly take some time.
Dr Pain’s presentation is attached.
10. Pre-surgical training in New South Wales
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