There
are 4 best practices for medical education that
can help you meet
and exceed industry guidelines for your
2005 programs.
 1. Interaction
A substantial
body of medical education research has
identified interaction as a critical
component to retention and learning. Best practices include:
- Case studies via
voice, multiple choice and text input
- Pre and Post Assessment
via voice, multiple choice and text input
- Dynamic presentations that use voice or multiple choice
to direct presentation content and focus after core teaching has
taken place
- The Communicator
multifunctional audience response system can help provide participant
feedback via voice, multiple choice and text input
 2. Visual Knowledge Maps & Multimedia
Medical Education consists largely of complex and systemic knowledge possessing many layers and interrelationships. Adult Education research overwhelmingly suggests that visual maps and multimedia work best for accurate retention and learning. Best practices include:
- Systemic and
navigable 2D and 3D knowledge maps are more effective communicators
of complex material than PowerPoint slides and detailed numeric
research charts
- Multimedia
(presenting information with moving graphics, rich backgrounds,
music and atmosphere) create stronger retention of complex Information
than standard practices
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3. Knowledge Generation
Offering
knowledgeable adult learners the power and opportunity to not
only receive knowledge, but to generate new knowledge based
upon experience, peer discussion, and discovery, substantially stimulates
adult learning. Best practices include:
- While the typical objective of a medical education meeting is
to provide information rather than receive information, research
suggests that trained medical professionals possess enormous amounts
of valuable knowledge that can add to the educational experience
if tapped properly.
- Building new knowledge
as the sole objective of a medical education forum is a best
practice when aided by tools such as discovery learning processes
and The Communicator.
 4. Multi-site Web / Satellite Programs
Engaging audiences in the familiar context of local or regional locations, and enabling the audience to participate and interact easily via voices, multiple choice, and text input has become a proven enhancement - helping to fully achieve learning objectives. Best practices include:
- Although live
in-person meetings remain a best practice, interactive web and satellite
based multi-site meetings conducted either live or asynchronously
have become a cost-effective pragmatic best practice when travel
and time constraints prevail.
- The Communicator audience response system, coupled with web based data
gathering, is the only interactive tool that can support live multi-site meetings
in an easy to use, plug and play fashion.
MULTI-SITE
INTERACTION ONLY WITH THE COMMUNICATOR
Send a single case of Communicator devices to each location hosting a multi-site
broadcast. Everyone at the sites can use the Communicator to respond instantly
to posed questions, with comprehensive results available in seconds.
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Everyone. Everyone
in our meeting gets a high quality amplified microphone.
No more running handheld microphones
around the room.
No more lining up at microphone stands in the aisles. No
more waiting
and straining to hear. Instead, a breath of fresh air and an amazing
breakthrough.
Great for case studies and advisory board discussions!
Extraordinary.
Extraordinary text messaging
and documentation.
Doctors,
nurses, and sales professionals enter
words, thoughts and ideas and see them instantly displayed overhead.
Words
typed by your audience float onto the large screen for all to see, and
at the same time the words are captured in a database - The Communicator
becomes an electronic flip chart or virtual white board.
 Brilliant. Brilliant
Smart Cards and On Board Memory.
Medical professionals can use Smart Cards for registration
and data tracking.
Use On Board Memory to store data from breakout sessions
throughout the day.
Powerful. The most powerful voting and survey tool available.
Unlimited data entry & SQL database processing.
Evaluated and approved for legal voting, market research, and focus group data capture.
For all kinds of medical meetings, nothing beats
The Communicator.
Hundreds of organizations worldwide use The Communicator for medical
education meetings & events,
internal training, game shows, dynamic surveys and market research.
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