Using Knowledge Mobilization to Promote Student Engagement in Health Promotion on Canadian Campuses

Engagement in Distributed Medical School Campuses

Four clinical concepts symptoms, diagnosis, causes, and treatment(s) comprised an easily implementable organizing framework for both individual basic science lectures and for an “integration session” that incorporated clinical and discipline-based foundational sciences. According to most students (>80 %) surveyed, this approach facilitated a novel and more meaningful appreciation of basic scien...

A Student-Centered Guest Lecturing: A Constructivism Approach to Promote Student Engagement

Student engagement has become a big challenge in higher education, especially when distance learning is getting more and more popular. Guest lecturing is a popular method to bring relevance to the classroom and engage in students. Ground on the theory of constructivism, this paper introduces a student-centered guest lecturing that allows students to work in team and participate in each step of ...

Preceptor engagement in distributed medical school campuses

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in distributed medical campuses and engagement of physicians in these communities. To date, there has been suboptimal recruitment of physicians to participate in medical education at distributed campuses. The purpose of this project was to identify barriers to engagement in medical education by community physicians in the geographical catchment of the Wat...

Using Messagegrid to Promote Student Collaboration

It is now commonplace to see laptop computers in the classroom. Some colleges and universities have mandated that incoming freshmen have a laptop computer when they arrive on campus. What is not obvious is that, with the right software package, these computers can serve as powerful tools for collaboration among students both inside and outside the classroom. This paper describes one such packag...

Secular mobilization? The evolving effects of religion on Canadian civic engagement, 1982-2001