Presenters: Di McIntyre (University of Cape Town) and Heather Brown (University of Lancaster) Case studies (exercises, simulations, games, etc.) are powerful tools to promote active learning.  They can assist in developing a good understanding of complex concepts or methods, developing skills to apply these concepts and methods and promoting analytic thinking and interpretation.  This virtual […]

Featuring: Alice Ellyson, Acting Assistant Professor | Department of Pediatrics | School of Medicine, University of Washington Background: Sexual violence (SV) is prevalent among US college athletes, but formal reports are rare. Little is known about adaptations to institution-level reporting policies and procedures that could facilitate reporting.    Methods: We conducted a discrete choice experiment (DCE) […]

Presenters: Femi Ayadi (University of Houston – Clear Lake), Neha Batura (University College London) and Frikkie Booysen (University of the Witwatersrand) All certificated courses require some form of student assessment.  Assignments, tests and exams have been the main assessment techniques, despite their limitations in assessing whether learning outcomes have been met.  This webinar will explore […]

Featuring speaker: Alex Chan, Stanford University Discrimination against doctors is important but scantly studied. This field experiment observes that customers discriminate against Black and Asian doctors when they choose healthcare providers, and that this can be substantially reduced by supplying information on physician quality. Customer preferences were evaluated in the field with an online platform […]

Presenter: Professor Lisa Prosser (University of Michigan) This webinar will start with an overview of concepts in measuring the spillover effects of illness in family members for cost-effectiveness analysis.  Preliminary results for spillover effects on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in parents of children with COVID-19 illness will be presented, along with losses in HRQOL […]