Global Faculty Development Through Interactive Webcasting
Shiyao Yuan, Ray Wells, William P. Burdick
Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER)
Results
Introduction
How long did they stay?
FAIMER offers a two-year part-time fellowship for
How was sound?
Fair Poor
Excellent
7% 7%
13%
0-1 hour
13%
international health professions educators to improve
education at their institutions. International Medical
Good
13%
1-2 hours
19%
Education (IME) Day is a four-hour symposium during
the Fellowship that focuses on topics relevant to health
2-3 hours
12%
professions education through an interactive process.
3.5 hours
(entire
workshop)
56%
Very Good
60%
We webcast the live event for the first time in 2013 to
How was video?
How was Internet connection?
reach participants around the world.
Methods
Fair
27%
Very Good
33%
Source: Google Fusion Table
44 individuals from 21 locations in 11 countries, in addition to
59 onsite attendees, participated in the live streamed workshop.
Aruba (6)
Good
20%
Brazil (5)
China (3)
Egypt (1)
India (16)
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
Pakistan (1)
Peru (2)
Sri Lanka (4)
Thailand (1)
Good
36%
Very
Good
43%
Comments from workshop participants:

Bangladesh (4)
Poor Excellent
Fair 7%
7%
7%
Poor
7% Excellent
13%
“This is really a revolution of IME day, which makes
connection between FAIMER alumni and FAIMER
Institute.”
“Excellent interactive facilitation by resource persons.”
“Excellent coordination by Page and Samar. I did not feel
that I was a virtual participant.”
Conclusion
USA (1)
Global webcasting of the IME Day symposium, coupled
In collaboration with Drexel University Online Learning
with a creative and interactive design, expanded the
Team and PWPvideo (Philadelphia, PA), the IME Day
access to the real-time event to a global audience, and
symposium on “Appreciative Inquiry” (AI) was distributed
broadened the impact on faculty development. The
live on Blackboard Collaborate using streaming media
recorded webcast also gave it a “second life” as archival
technology.
information for people to retrieve at a later time .
Symposium design was highly interactive and consisted
of a keynote presentation, paired interview, group tasks
and discussions, and a synthesis session at the end. The
Acknowledgement
Workshop Onsite
Workshop Online
onsite and offsite interaction was transmitted through
Blackboard Collaborate. Offsite participants were
engaged in the workshop using the chat function. Two
Contact:
onsite monitors followed the online interaction and orally
transmitted questions and output from the online group.
Diana Whitney (Corporation for Positive Change)
Drexel University Online Learning Team
PWPvideo
Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
Group Tasks
Paired Interviews
Webcast Monitoring
Shiyao Yuan, M.S.Ed
Technology Specialist
FAIMER
syuan@faimer.org
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