Assessment Workshop
ERGA is pleased to announce that international curriculum design and assessment expert, Prof James Ware, MA, MB, BCh, Leg Läk, Surg Spec, FRCS, DMSc will be providing a workshop on Objective Structured Skills Examination (OSSE) for ERGA members and other interested staff.
Date: Thursday 28 February, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Venue: CLPD, Level 2, Schulz Bldg, North Tce campus (map)
If you are interested in attending, please email Edward Palmer asap. Seats are limited.
Abstract
Knowledge, Attitudes and Skills (KSA) represent the three pillars of educational behaviour that are changed by tertiary level education. In medicine, several innovative methods have been developed for the assessment of clinical skills which can be applied in a generic sense to other disciplines and needs of university studies. The Objective Structured Skills Examination (OSSE) is a process for assessing developing and graduating skills. This process is based upon the OSCE, first described by Ronald Harden, an eminent Dundee medical educationalist, over thirty years ago.
OSSE can be used in disciplines other than Medicine and the workshop will cover an introduction to the topic, the why, how and wherefores to enable participants in all areas to return and set up their own version of the OSSE, in the hope it will encourage the testing of skills, and in so doing, make judgments needed to graduate university level professionals using objective criteria.
Biography
James Ware is a graduate of Cambridge University, UK, with postgraduate training in UK as surgeon with an interest in GI and hepato-biliary surgery. Posts at Cambridge and London Universities as well as other recognised postgraduate centres preceded a move to Sweden where he worked at the Karolinska Institute and Hospital 1975-1989, becoming Associate Professor in Surgery in 1982. He was Director of the Surgical Research Laboratory 1985-89 with main focus on stress related metabolic changes relevant to surgery. Seconded to Department of Surgery, University of Liverpool, 1982-85.
In 1989 Prof Ware made a significant career change by moving to the UAE to assist start a new medical school at the UAE University. He developed an interest in medical education while in Al Ain working with the Faculty and Professors Harden and Hart to create a modern innovative curriculum. Two years after the first students graduated he moved to Malaysia where he again helped a start up medical school which was to become Asia's first private medical University. As Head of Clinical Sciences he had a significant impact in starting the clinical school for the University before moving to Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa. Appointed as the first Director of Medical Education in 2000: sought funding, planned and built extensive new facilities and developed the first medical curricular change in the Faculty of Health Sciences for eighty years. The first students graduated in 2006 from this four year Graduate Entry Medical Programme.
Three years spent at the headquarters of the IDEAL Consortium in the Chinese University of Hong Kong allowed time to be spent developing the consortium's policies and educational strategies, as well as serving as director for two major IT educational projects. In 2006 was invited to assist Kuwait University introduce another new curriculum and will hopefully stay until their students almost graduate in 2012. Since the mid-90s have traveled extensively talking about medical education (assessment and curriculum development), and was instrumental in setting up the IDEAL sister Consortium for nursing.
Prof Ware has published over 100 papers in international peer reviewed journals and we are delighted he has kindly agreed to visit the University of Adelaide.
