Virginia 2008 - The Core Meeting Programme

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The multidisciplinary segment of the 2008 meeting took place over three mornings (17-19 September).

Major themes and keynote presentations focused on the pandemic of obesity; the use of technology to augment clinical care; simulation programmes and outcomes; models of e-learning; and foreign credential recognition strategies. The programme also included a report on the proceedings and outcomes arising from the UN MDG workshop and the e-health symposium.

The U21 Health Sciences Executive met on the second day of the meeting.

The annual meeting concluded with a series of brief presentations, including reports from each of the discipline groups and the Executive. A presentation introducing participants to next year's meeting at Korea University was provided by host Dean, Heung Sik Na.

The core meeting programme [PDF 33.4kB]

CORE MEETING PROGRAMME - DAY 1

Keynote Speech 1: The Global Scope of Obesity and Co-Morbidities [PDF 493kB] (Anthony McCall)

Panel Discussion 1 –
Model programs focused on the Pandemic of Obesity

Obesity in Children: A need for intervention [PDF 1.12MB] (Mark DeBoer)

Children's Fitness Clinic UVa [PDF 975kB] (Susan Cluett)

The Sydney Resolution [PDF 133kB] (Jacinta Tobin)

Obesity and Dentistry [PDF 158kB] (Edwin Yen)

Obesity in South Korea [PDF 1.22MB] (Nah-Mee Shin)

Panel Discussion 2 –
Local, regional and national policies to effect change in the Pandemic of Obesity

The State of Obesity: Public Policy and the Health of the Public [PDF 1.31MB] (Carolyn Engelhard)

Diabetes in Chinese: Changing Epidemiology, Prediction and Preventive Measures [PDF 665kB] (Karen Lam)

UN Millennium Development Goal Initiative

Report on the UN MDG workshop [PDF 642kB] (Kendall Ho)

The Student Experience [PDF 1.32MB] (N Patil)

CORE MEETING PROGRAMME - DAY 2

Keynote Speech 2: The Use of Technology to Augment Clinical Care [PDF 1.92MB] (James Harrison)

Panel Discussion 3 –
Simulation: programmes and outcomes

Team Training in Complicated Childbirth [PDF 229kB] (Anna Karin Dykes)

Simulation in Dental Education [PDF 129kB] (Ana Cecilia Trevino)

Physical Therapy Simulation [PDF 658kB] (Paul Sung) 

Panel Discussion 4 –
Models for e-learning and teaching including distance learning and patient education

Models for e-learning and teaching at the University of Virginia [PDF 482kB] (Melanie McCollum)

Models for e-learning and teaching at the University of Birmingham [PDF 2.60MB] (Damien Walmsley)

Models of e-learning in Nursing skills development at UBC [PDF 845kB] (Sally Thorne and Bernie Garrett, presented by Sally Thorne)

Reports

The notes of the U21 HS Executive Committee meeting [PDF 30kB]

e-Health Steering Committee report [PDF 1.01MB] (Trevor Russell)

Interprofessional e-health steering committee report [PDF 712kB] (Kendall Ho)

CORE MEETING PROGRAMME - DAY 3

Keynote Speech 3: A Global perspective on Foreign Credential Recognition Strategies [PDF 149kB] (Prof Lesleyanne Hawthorne)

Report from the Executive Committee [PDF 130kB] (Gillian Webb)

Brief presentation on Korea University from 2009 Host Dean [PDF 7.85MB] (Heung Sik Na)