2023 - Teaching Fellows
E-learning program for toothcariesdiagnostics and cariesmanagementtraining for dental students: ELISA
dr. M.D. Lagerweij (Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam)
It is a challenge for dental students to diagnose early caries lesions and to estimate the individual effects of preventive interventions such as toothbrushing instructions. The aim of this project is to help students to accelerate this learning process by offering virtual patients via e-learning. In this e-learning they can see patients on a weekly basis, simulating that the patient has lived for months (instead of a week) and treat caries with preventive measures instead of immediate drilling and filling. The teachers will give feedback/forward to the progress of the students until they have reached a sufficient proficiency level.
Emotions in and around the classroom
dr. M. Weerdesteijn (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
When students study international crimes, such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, they may experience negative emotions. Sometimes this adversely impacts their well-being and learning process. In order to provide more guidance on how to cope with these emotions, an extra-curricular course for the International Crimes, Conflict and Criminology Master’s at VU Amsterdam will be created in which alumni who work in the field, talk about their job, how it impacts them and how they cope. In preparation for these meetings, students train their meta-cognitive skills which allows them to have more control over their emotions.
2023 - Senior Fellow
Interactive vlogs for clinical education: the entire patient journey in view of a wide range of diseases
dr. S. Van der Velde (Amsterdam UMC – location VUmc)
Interactive vlogs are short educational videos in which you follow the doctor in his daily activities, just like interns do during their internships. Because hospitals are becoming more and more specialized and not all care is offered in every location, doctors in training increasingly lack experience with certain diseases and processes. By offering them a wide range of interactive vlogs, they can study diseases or processes themselves in a way that comes closest to practice, namely with lifelike films of real doctors at work with their patients.