I’m very excited to be starting to develop a entirely new Medical Humanities subject for the new MD course at UoM. It is a Discovery subject, elective for first year postgraduate students studying medicine, and will be delivered entirely in virtual mode, to ensure equity across both city and rural based students.

Working with terrific colleagues Rosie Shea, Jenny Schwarz, and Jayne Lysk (all from the Faculty of Medicine), we’ve got a tight deadline to shape and create the subject, ready for delivery in Sem 1 2022. The subject will be bringing medical science, creativity and the arts together, for a socially engaged approach to health and wellbeing. We will be using an art/cultural learning approach exploiting the affordances of UoM’s cultural collections and museum/gallery environments, with a focus on the virtual space of UoM’s new Science Gallery as the virtual/conceptual central learning hub.

We started our strategising using Padlet as a collaborative tool, as we work in an entirely virtual space to create this new subject. Thanks to the inspiration and new understandings generated by EDUC#90970, I felt confident pulling together the beginnings of the Ecology of Resources for the subject, again in Padlet for easy sharing.

https://unimelb.padlet.org/heathergaunt/Medhumanities_ecology_of_resources

I’m very inspired by the reflective opportunities of the blog (they’ll use Edublogs like this). And there are great examples of digital platforms for assessment-outcomes in the form of creative content (artworks, poems, videos, music)… a classic being the UBC Heartfelt.