Dear Mr. Sudeep C B 

I just writing to inform you that I read interested articles about your topic.

Rifkin S. B.  Hartley ,S. D.  (2001) Learning by Doing: Teaching Qualitative Methods to Health Care Personnel, Education for Health, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 75 – 85

Hollis, N. E. Canterbury, M.A. (1996) Health Care Consumer Education: Alternative 

Teaching Methods, HOME CARE PROVIDER, MAY/JUNE VOL. 1 NO.3

I am sending you two articles as a PDF file.

I hope I have been of some help.

Best wishes,

Andrija

1. Video clip on actual health care info. dissemination as per requirement.

2. Role play on the delivery of the info. at face-to-face level between intern and the patient or target audiences.

3. Multimodal semiotics of design for presenting the info. to the targeted audience.

thanks

Simulation, case studies and problem based learning. 

I agree that simulation and case studies are excellent ways to present information about health promotion and to foster critical thinking. Both methods present situations that are as close to 'real life' as possible in the classroom.

Grand rounds is a strategy utilized in many teaching institutions that you could explore 

Role playing or simulation is for me an effective strategy.  

All of this (these references above) would be helpful for teaching and learning about health information.  However, health promotion is fundamentally about creating the social and economic context in which health behaviors and health environments trigger population attitudes and programs that support health improvement.

In my opinion any of the above options are adequate. Actually all are reflexive strategies. And this is the fundamental aspect of the teaching-learning process in these cases.

Health can not be purchased, it is acquired. But how it is acquired, it is by doing. This mostly by motivation. We have the knowledge but it is not always in action, action is only possible if we have someones motivate us and that motivation further become the action. When we talk about the heath promotion at workplace, then we follow the health promotion strategies, involvement of all the stakeholders and healthy public health policy for promotion of health.

Interesting answer, Mohan.

It depends on what it is that you want them to know or understand.  If it is health promotion techniques then reading and discussing case studies would be good.  If it is how social determinants affect their patients and what they are asking of their patients then having them spend time in the communities from which their patients come from could be effective.  You could also give them a budget and then have them put together resources for a family of health promotion services.  If it is the range of services available in the community then having them visit local agencies and report back to the class could be effective.  If it is health behaviors then you could have them track their own health behaviors such as their diet.  If it is policy change then you could have them do a role play of a policy change such as adoption of a wellness policy for a business.

I like the Socrates Method of teaching. It encourages debate and critical thinking.

Velma M. Edmonds, DNS, RN

thank you much Mr Andrija those articles were indeed helpful. 

Regards 

Thank you Mr Jyh...  we do practice them here too to impart knowledge to the masses as well as for our awareness initiatives. 

thank you much Irene, Bonnie, Angela, Verona critical thinking and problem solving are two aspects I make them work on and also strategic planning and program implementation with evaluation. 

thank you Mr Antonio I will look up to the reflexive strategies and try to tailor them to our purpose too. 

Thank you much Diane and Mohan. Your answers addresses certain core principles involved with health promotion. But these are more of theoretical knowledge that we impart to our students and the points mentioned in both your responses are those basic aspects we should never skip while doing so. But my question was more like how to bring those theoretical knowledge to practice once these students have finished their academic years and are now Healthcare interns. 

Regards 

Thank you much Mr.Joyce, Actually all the things you have mentioned separately are the things i need them to understand and apply. So I was basically looking forward to know how and understand how these are carried out by different educators in their regions, that would help me and others build a more solid approach to teaching our interns better.

Regards

Thank you much Virginia and Velma, I will I will look up on the approaches suggested by you and try to tailor them to our purpose. 

Regards

I think that to give interns some Chinese medicine's knowledge is good. Such as the yang Qi concept, diet, lifestyle habits, correct mindset toward to health such as taking care own health as each one's self-responsibility, etc. do not cover in the western medicine.

I give you some links for your reference. If you want, I have more materials that can help you.

https://universaltcm.com/yang-qi-functions-relationship-health/

https://universaltcm.com/cold-foods-and-cold-drinks-caused-health-problems/

I think having interns spend time with  and interviewing elderly , disabled and marginalized clients. Just getting to know them and understanding their limitations and the limitations society and the health care system has placed upon them may enable interns to appreciate the socio- cultural -economic challenges many individuals or  people may face.

Thank you Stefanie, I totally agree, interactions and understanding the existing patterns will help bridge the gap and also help promote critical thinking in order to provide a better structure for the same in future.

Regards

Knowing how the interns learn naturally is important too. I personally am a visual learner, and prefer hands on training to reading and slides. Stefanie Zupancic also had an excellent suggestion. I prefer the hands on approach with my patients, have done bedside nursing for more than 35 years, 25 of which was ER trauma. You see all types of patient populations and you can learn an enormous amount of information just by talking to them. The other important aspect to this is to understand upfront that not all patients want to be helped. They like their environments, even if homeless, do not like or trust medications or treatments, and do not trust any strangers most often. The patient has to be willing to be taught and you need to understand when it is important to back off so that the person does not feel threatened and will hopefully be more receptive the next time. 

Thank you Elizabeth, yes i agree, not all the patients who come to us need all our assistance, but at the same time it remains our duty morally and ethically, to help them in every possible way so as to ensure a better quality of life. Hands on approach is always the best, "I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand." this quote holds good in all the things that we do in our life.But in case of health promotion we might just need to relay more on innovation than completely depend on the age old tried and tested formulas. Hope you agree.

Regards

I agree Sudeep. But it also pays to think outside the box. Sometimes doing something as simple as getting the person a cup of coffee or a meal can open the door to impart information or getting other services like Social services involved. Our Social Workers are an amazing group of people with outstanding resources. I encourage those that work in any field to look at the other services available and utilize them. You might be surprised at what they can achieve. 

@Elizabeth Krupp, I agree with you. That the elderly need to have love and people surrounded them instead of isolated at home to get health worse sooner and live a sad life.

Please read my new proposed article in the link. The self-healing power can

The self-healing power can get back by a 5 min exercises. Friends, neighbors gathered to gather and/or interns gathered together to mature treat and/or discuss how to make the self-healing skill better, it's full of fun and has a positive attitude toward to the life.

http://universalenergyhealing.us/comprehensive-universal-energy-healing-offers-elderly-happy-healthy-life/

Dear Elizabeth, I thought innovation was a result of thinking outside the box, if you agree to that, then I guess we are just re-quoting the same thing in different terms. But yes that is exactly I want to know, how to innovate and think outside the box in relation to teaching method that would be appropriate for imparting health promotion based knowledge to health care Interns, that being the question which remains yet to be answered in specific.

Regards

Ok, so there are the usual ways, interpreters for language barriers, video for those that are  illiterate, etc. Some of the things I have done is just asking what works for the person I am talking to, such as pictures, or to take them to appointments, arrange for meetings with other resource people while in the facility, find friends that are going to the same places or seeing the same people that the person you are working with trusts and perhaps arranging group meetings the first time. Trying to find the barrier to learning may be extremely difficult but once you do, there is usually a way to work around it. Sometimes it is a problem that cannot be solved. People with Schizophrenia are the most common. You cannot be heard past the voices and it takes a very long time for these patients to gain trust in you. I have found when I have a patient like that, I ask them what they are thinking about. Many times, I can discover the fears the voices are representing and then can figure out what help this person truly needs. It may not be anything like you first thought. But in the end, the only way you can get through to any person to impart knowledge is to respect their differences, and to gain their trust. Once you do that, it is easier to work around the barriers and help the person in need.

@Sudeep C B My master Professor Ni, Hai Xia let us put what we learned and what we gain from our clinical experiences in visual picture. That helps.

Meanwhile, to think out of the box for me is not believing any no clue to treating diseases exist. It only means that we have not studied enough from ancient wisdom or documentations or we have not fully applied our knowledge and ability to find solutions.

Dear Elizabeth, Thank you much for the insight, this would definitely be useful as a strategy for 1 on 1 approach for imparting health education, could you share some ideas that you might have for mass approach for the same. and also I am trying to gather information regarding teaching methods for health care interns, and not methods of health promotion for patients. I guess you are getting misdirected regarding the question under consideration here.

Thanks and Regards

Dear Frieda Mah, I agree ancient medicine is the base for medical practices even today, but modern medicine have so far fetched branches that we have started to forget the roots. And visual imaging of a content is a good idea, but how far applicable in case of health promotion is subjective.

Thank you much for the valuable insight

Regards

I guess it would depend on your definition of Mass approach. I found that hands on is still best. Bring in examples to give them a visual to go with the theory. Encourage them to touch and explore models of the human body or organs and give them time to do so if possible. Ask questions that lead them to think on their own to see if they can apply what they are learning. Try to find a way to make the less interesting information to learn fun. If you had smaller classes, some of the things my instructors did in the past was create a Jeopardy game with the information we were reviewing prior to a test, creating tasks that groups of students could try to complete in a specific time as a competition, etc.  Look at what grade school teachers do to help their students learn in fun ways and try to apply it. 

I have also found that one of the things that worked for me whenever I taught was give printed handouts of the slide presentation so the students could write notes on them and could then concentrate on the information instead of writing it down. Hope these are helpful Sudeep!

Thank you much Elizabeth, you have been through and through supportive, informative and also innovative. keep up the good work.

Regards

Health promotion in theory and in practice is two different notions, theoretical knowledge can be extracted from the may standard textbooks for the same, but that would be different approaches that can be utilized for imparting practical knowledge?

Experts please your experience and insights regarding what kind of a teaching method would be appropriate for imparting health promotion based knowledge to health care Interns? 

Regards

I have used real patients who have told their "story" to the students, then allowed the students to ask them questions.  Obviously you need patients who are not shy and are keen to get their message to potential practitioners.  The students liked it and so did the patients. All the suggestions from other correspondents are useful, too. Regards,

Telling stories from actual patients is good, and so is field experience where problems exist. Then, problem-solve and prioritize the identified problems.

@Jill Smith, That's a very good idea. When I had clinical training, I also got lots of benefits from interacting with patients. Even when I practice, I still do that.

Hello Jill Smith, it is obviously a very good approach, but as you said it would be pratically possible only if we have such patents who dont have issues opening up, if not that, what other approaches do you usually consider.?

Regards

Hello Velma Edmonds, totally agree with you, in learning just one approach will never be able to fulfill any purpose, multiple approaches will be need to make them understand all dimensions of an activity.

Regards

Hello Frieda Mah, true, patient interaction is one of the best practices in learning and developing our own set of skills

Regards