Dear MPW students and friends:
2014 has been an exciting year for MPW: the first MPW-Africa project was launched, the number of user accounts has passed 7.500, and EU has granted us a two-years funding for the development of case-based learning material. More about it can be found in this newsletter.
Season’s greetings from the MPW team!
Dr. Klaus Melf, MPW Education Coordinator
Content:
- New project: Medical Peace Work 3
- Evaluation of new test configuration
- Second round of MPW-workshop in Kenya
- New book: Healing under Fire - The Case of Southern Thailand
- Conference announcement: Reviving the Medical Peace Movement, London, November 13-14, 2015
1. New project: Medical Peace Work 3
Medical Peace Work has gone into a third project round. It has been selected for EU-funding in the period 2014-2016. The new project aims to increase the MPW performance among health professionals through the use of case-based learning methodology. Ten partner organizations will collaborate to develop and to implement narrative case studies, audio-visual cases and a new case-based online course. In contrast to the existing seven MPW courses, the new material will be produced for group work and peer learning, both in formal and non‐formal education. Four of the partner organizations have former experience in collaborating through the MPW partnership. Six new members are included: IPPNW-Norway, Coalition for Work With Psychotrauma and Peace, Samaritan Austria State of Styria, 4-change, The Case Centre, and Medical Mission Institute Würzburg.
The MPW3 project chart can be downloaded here.
Contact: mpw@legermotatomvapen.no
2. Evaluation of changed test configuration
On May 16th, 2014, we changed the configuration of our test questions in all seven online courses from “no feedback” to showing which of your answers were right and wrong. In order to make the test not too easy, we decided to change to a random selection of questions each time you try, to an increase of the pass level to 80 % correct answers, to a maximum of three test attempts, and to a time-pressured submission of answers (approximately 1,5 minutes per question). The feedback so far has been mixed. In order to systematically evaluate the new test configuration, we will in January send an electronic questionnaire to a representative sample of our users. Please respond to this request, if you get selected. Thanks in advance for your feedbacks.
3. Second round of MPW-workshop in Kenya
After a successful first MPW-Africa project from January to April this year, in which more than 100 students went simultaneously through the seven online courses and half of them attended a skills training workshop in Nairobi, IPPNW-Kenya is heading for a second workshop in the beginning of 2015.
For more information, please contact project coordinator Arthur Chweya at Maseno University, arthurchweyah@gmail.com, +254704140740.
4. New book: Healing under Fire - The Case of Southern Thailand
Since more than 10 years, an armed conflict is going on in Southern Thailand. This book presents different ways how health professionals not only try to mitigate the health consequences, but also work towards peace building and conflict transformation. The book is a follow-up of a peace-health workshop for local health professionals which took place in Krabi/Thailand in December last year.
You can download it at: https://sites.google.com/site/thaibookproject/downloadentirebook
5. Conference announcement: Reviving the Medical Peace Movement, London, November 13-14, 2015
On Friday 13th and Saturday 14th November 2015, the MPW partner Medact will be holding a major two-day conference on the topic of peace, disarmament, conflict and health in Friends House, Euston in London. This conference intends to bring together leading members of the medical and health communities with those working in the field of peace and conflict to revitalise the health peace movement. Please mark already in your calendar.
If you're interested to know more, or would like to be involved in this endeavour, please do get in touch: www.medact.org/contact/