Gender and Health Collaborative Curriculum

www.genderandhealth.ca

Rupa Patel, Queen’s University, Kingston

Shayna Watson, Sympatico

Nahid Azad, University of Ottawa

The goal of this project was to improve health and health care through the development of a collaborative curriculum

It needed to be based on a web presence for accessibility reasons.

• It is a web based learning resource
• Was designed and implemented for medical students in their early training
• Instructors needed access to progressively build the site
• Curriculum designers together with the Universities Medical teaching staff were responsible for the pedagogical quality.

It was designed to be engaging for the learners whilst being evidence based. One of the keys to the outcome being engaging was the issue that students were involved right through the development phase.

One example of content was that of sexuality where there is a need to educate new students about the difference between sexuality in a professional context to that of the social context.

Some of the LO’s on the website were demonstrated. The site is designed in very lateral way. The presenters advised that they were happy for other health educators to freely use the material on the site. There would be some benefits for CS&H to evaluate this site for possible useful content.

They are also developing a self authoring tool

The site has an e-Portfolio for student use.

Objects can be viewed at this site by accessing.

http://hephaestus.tetraplex.com/

There is a need to contact the authors of the site to negotiate use of any material.