Leadership and Management to guide Educational Strategies in Clinical Sciences

Welcome!

This course will explore key processes to creating meaningful change.

What’s Love Got to Do With It? Leadership in New Era of Healthcare | Susan Carter | TEDxNashville

Course Overview: Creating meaningful change does not simply happen. It takes strategic effort, having an innovative and creative mindset, the ability to be adaptable and think on your feet when challenged, show resilience, and above these qualities the ability lead for change, manage the project to see the change and use the scholarship of teaching and learning to measure and report the change. This course takes you through a practical learning process, applied to your research project, that shows the value of the SoTL, leadership for change and project management in achieving your project objectives.

Course Outcomes: By the end of this course you will be able to:

set personal goals for your scholarship of teaching and learning journey.
apply the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Index dichotomies and dyads to optimize the outcomes of pitching your research ideas.
apply the principles of Ubuntu Leadership and the Model of Change Leadership in strategically planning your research project for real-world change.
develop a project plan that addresses a real-world problem and is contextual, realistic, measurable and has a defined scope.
reflect on the value of change leadership and project management in the production of a meaningful SoTL research project, with respect to stakeholder benefit, communication/dissemination of research outcomes and creating an environment that fosters change for good.

Core text: Chapter 37: Educational Leadership and Management by Judy McKimm, Tim Swanwick in Understanding Medical Education: Evidence, Theory, and Practice, Third Edition Book Editor(s):Tim Swanwick, Kirsty Forrest, Bridget C. O'Brien. We recommend that you read this chapter at the start of the course.

Credits and Hour allocation: 18 credits is 180 notional hours. While the course is structured around 18 hours of scheduled activity it is generally expected that for every scheduled hour there is another 9 hours of thinking, reflecting, making meaning, studying, doing extended reading, planning, practicing, completing assignments and exploring the application of this course content to your context, your personal goals and your individual learning objectives.

Course Discussion Forum: Access the course discussion forum for general discussions or to post your questions.

Learning Modules:

Introduction Part 1 (Session 1): Working in Ulwazi
Introduction Part 2 (Session 2): Your facilitators and discussion forum
Session 3: Revisiting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) (12-18 July)
Session 4: Leadership for Change (12-18 July)
Session 5: Project Management - Seeing the Change (19-25 July)
Session 6: Closing the Loop - Scholarship + Leadership + Project management = educational reform/transformation. (19-25 July)