The Global Health Education Consortium initiated this web project with the central objective of improving the quality and efficiency of global health education. We seek to do this by providing high quality modules on a wide variety of topics which students can review either on their own or in instructor-led courses. By being assigned in advance of class session modules can reduce time spent in lectures, thus allowing class time to be used more productively in discussions, review of case studies, problem-solving, etc.
As of February 2009 over 50 draft modules are available and by mid-2009 we expect to post another 70.
View the Full List of Modules
The modules have the following characteristics:
- PowerPoint presentation with a common 'look-and-feel' format
- Suitable for introductory and more advanced courses
- Suitable for medical, public health, nursing & other health students
- Has desirable features such as learning objectives and quizzes
- Usable in either instructor-led or self-instructional mode
- Developed in partnership with student organizations, NGOs and universities
- Peer-reviewed by faculty and field-tested by students prior to final author revision and posting to the internet
- Will be linked with a global health wiki so users can add content and dialogue about the topic
- Potential for "internationalization" of modules (translation, regional modules)
To see the modules scroll down the screen, click on the module of choice, and then "Click for full view." To start viewing click on the small round icon at the lower right corner. Once started you can either use that icon or the "Page Down" key to advance through the slides. The small square icon toggles between the "Outline - Thumbnails - Search" displays to the left and the full screen. Click on the three options to see what you get. On some slides you may see a "Note" button on the lower right corner. A click on Note will lead you to supplementary notes to the side, and a click on the "Back" button will return you to the slide.
The GHEC website also plans to introduce a global health "Forum" and "Wiki", two features that will facilitate discussions and collaborations among members to initiate and/or participate in public inquiries and discussions on topics of interest. The wiki site will facilitate the collective creation and editing of relevant contents readily accessible through the web. Users will be able to 'tag' conversations and wiki pages with keywords or topics of choice to link them with other useful sources of information. These two community features can leverage the collective intelligence of the GHEC community in the pursuit of our central objective to improve the quality and efficacy of global health education.
Persons interested in proposing a new module topic, being a module author and/or serving as reviewer should contact Tom Hall at: thall [at] epi.ucsf.edu