Annual Meeting Brings 100+ College Health Advisors to CMSRU

In February, CMSRU will enter the next chapter of innovative education by piloting a "flipped lecture" program for part of the first year curriculum. For those who haven't kept up with this growing trend, the concept of a flipped classroom is this: instead of having students sit through a lecture and then go their separate ways to study and work through problems, students view the lecture at home (via podcast, video, or PowerPoint presentation) and then complete interactive "homework" on-site that is facilitated by faculty. This interactive work could take the form of case-based practice problems, skill development, or other group and individual projects. See a terrific infographic about flipping HERE.

 

In many ways, this is an extension of CMSRU's emphasis on active engagement of students through small group work. Students currently work on cases in their seven Active Learning Groups - a process well-regarded by the charter class and faculty alike. While some content will continue to be delivered via the traditional on-site lecture format, our long-term vision is that this will be a very targeted and limited method of teaching.

 

The first course to use the flipped format will be Infectious Diseases, beginning in February. Already, faculty are recording their lectures - either at home using laptops and webcams, or in CMSRU's "flip recording room" where equipment has been set up for this purpose. Shortly, faculty will be able to test an annotation tablet, so that they may record lectures along with their PowerPoint, as well as annotate slides similar to what they might do in the live classroom. Examples of this type of annotation can be seen broadly in Khan Academy courses (a model for curriculum flipping!), with a specific example HERE.

Students Hold MLK Day of Service Event

CMSRU's Class of 2016 marked this year's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by hosting "Healthy Habits-Healthy Community," a special service learning event they planned for local youth and young adults.

 

Nearly 150 middle, high school and college students from throughout the region gathered at CMSRU in Camden for the half-day event, during which CMSRU students trained them to become community leaders in exercise, nutrition and wellness. CMSRU students are required to perform 40 hours of community service per year, including planning and hosting an annual MLK Day of Service event.

 

"Our students chose this project as a way to encourage the youth in the City of Camden -- and beyond -- to not only be healthier themselves, but to become role models in their families and among their peers for living healthy, active lives," explained Jocelyn Mitchell-Williams, MD, PhD, CMSRU's Associate Dean for Multicultural and Community Affairs.  

 

Click HERE to read full coverage of CMSRU's MLK Day of Service

Focus on Faculty: Evan Goldman, PhD

 

Evan Goldman, PhD, a science educator and researcher in physiology, has joined CMSRU's basic science faculty as Assistant Professor of Biomedical Science. He will teach the gross anatomy sections of CMSRU's organ-based modules to first and second year students, and will facilitate an active learning group.

 

Prior to joining CMSRU, Dr. Goldman was a member of the biomedical science faculty at Philadelphia University in East Falls, PA, where he was an educator of undergraduate, graduate and physician assistant students in the areas of Advanced Human Anatomy, Anatomy & Physiology, Biology, Integrative Design Process, and Bioethics.

 

Dr. Goldman's area of research is currently focused on evaluating the benefits and harms of wearing body armor and sports compression clothing in terms of thermal load, proprioceptive changes, cardiovascular changes, and impacts on range of motion, mobility and protection. In the past, he worked under a military grant developing a backpack able to harness energy from human motion and also help reduce the strain experienced by soldiers by dampening the peak forces to which soldiers are subject due to carrying heavy packs in the field. He most recently worked with a team on development of the next-generation military body armor. Following his interest in anatomical education research, he has developed animations and computer interfaces to aid student learning in gross anatomy.

 

Dr. Goldman earned his doctorate degree in Physiology from Temple University in Philadelphia in 1998. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship on integrative muscle physiology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004.