Presentations

The current refugee crisis in Germany has prompted the development of strategies to facilitate communication between Germans and their sometimes unwelcomed guests. Given the barriers of language and culture between Germans and refugees, the comic book, with its emphasis on both visual mediation and verbal communication, has become one of these strategies. Thus a new genre has arisen: der Flüchtlingscomic.

This category, however...

Authors: : Kelly Grindrod, Catherine Burns, Samina Abidi, Jonathan Boersema, Christian Chabot, Jessie Chin, Maman Joyce Dogba, Lisa Dolovich, LIne Guénette, Lisa Guirguis, Damla Kerestecioglu, France Légaré, Annette McKinnon, Kathryn Mercer, Khrystine Waked.

To study how electronic health information is shared across patients, family physicians and pharmacies, including the types of information typically exchanged, tools that support interprofessional shared medication decision-making and best practices related to the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for decision...

Presenters: Caitlin Carter

One of the most difficult tasks while teaching undergraduate students is maintaining audience engagement. Historically, clickers have been used to encourage student participation and to gauge comprehension during lectures. However, using clickers has some disadvantages, which has allowed for more robust audience response systems to gain popularity within higher education institutions. Top Hat, an audience response system, is a subscription web-based product which can be used to keep students engaged in the learning process. In...