Decisions About Selecting Assigned Case Activities and Counting Hours of Simulation for Supervised Practice
During the COVID-19 response, many program directors/instructors are evaluating our cases for use during the end of the spring semester...read more about how to think about selecting assignments and counting cases toward supervised practice hours.
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NCPro Activities in a "Flipped" Classroom for Nutrition Assessment
Selecting activities that align with your course learning objectives and curriculum scope are key to ensuring the success of the "flipped" class.
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Integrating the Nutrition Care Process & Terminology Text into the Curriculum: Tips from Fontbonne
A key indicator of curriculum success is the quality of student learning and... student learning depends largely on the timing of exposure to new information.
Certain NCPro activities are designed to go hand-in-hand with foundation Medical Nutrition Therapy teachings. Educators have reported that teaching a complete case enhances the quality of student learning near the end of the curriculum.
Here are ideas from an instructor who used the cases last year!
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Implementing NCPro activities in your curriculum? How to estimate time per activity.
It can be challenging for students and educators to guage the time required to complete the online activities. For planning purposes instructors need to know how long each activity will take. We've discovered that when students are first exposed to the NCPro cases, it takes them longer to complete the activities than it does once they've grasped the principles of nutrition care.
See students' self-reported times.
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Tailoring Case Activities for Extra Skill-building. Meet your Students' Unique Learning Needs
Dietetics students frequently find they require additional learning in a specific aspect of the NCP.
Using the NCPRo activities to assist these students, instructors can establish the students' breadth of knowledge, build their students' knowledge in weak areas and finally test their competency through a range of supported activities and teaching practices. Read more...
Results from new Self Assessment Activity in NCPro Cases
One of the new features of the Nutrition Care Professionals cases this year is the self-assessment quiz (usually less than 10-15 questions).
Students were asked to complete these multi-choice questionnaires to determine if they had the necessary backgound knowledge to complete the case...
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A good quality learning tool provides learning differention, that is, space for educators to adapt the content to suit their students' learning needs. Discover how this University used the HENT case to suit their students' specific learning requirements.
The NCPro cases do not require each student to learn in the same way and in the same number of hours. This University had a unique approach to teaching last semester. The Home Enteral Nutrition case involves several visits by the dietitian. The class was divided into three groups, each group acting as a single practitioner. As part of their assessment students in their groups were required to prepare a "handover" presentation at the end of each consultation for the next group.
Students were marked on their ability to gather, interpret and relay critical pieces of data in order for the following group to continue the nutrition intervention....
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What are students learning by evaluating their nutrition progress notes?
In fall 2020 we introduced a new activity for students who were advanced and were ready to write progress notes summarizing nutrition care. The evaluation tool was adapted from the tool developed by Dee Pratt, Dietitian Associates, Inc that she used as a consultant when she evaluated progress notes.
This fall so far, 70 students have used the evaluation tool to evaluate their own or their classmates nutrition progress notes, sometimes as a group activity and sometimes as an individual assignment.
Methods for assessing clinical reasoning or judgement
Looking for options for evaluating dietetic students' clinical judgement? See a summary of information included in a scoping review for a systematic review on the types of assessment methods and tools available for healthcare professions educators. Read about the components identified within clinical reasoning and summary of tools used in a Workplace-Based Assessment and Non Workplace-Based Assessments.