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Faculty of Health Sciences

Demystifying Medicine

Education

The overall goal of the McMaster Demystifying Medicine Seminar Series is to bridge the gap between clinical care and science. We are convinced that collaborative synergistic research approaches involving physician and scientists are critical to make discoveries that will benefit tomorrows patients. We are aiming to create different educational courses that will be attached to the McMaster Demystifying Medicine Seminar Series. Please email us if you have any suggestions.

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Demystifying Medicine Series: HTH SCI 3DM3, 3DR3 and 4KT3

Students will work in small cross-disciplinary groups on selected topics presented at the McMaster Demystifying Medicine Seminar Series. Students will acquire a broad overview of various clinical topics, patient needs and associated biomedical research. Students will translate the acquired knowledge to patients and public and develop educational material.

Course Length: Three hours, one term.

Course Coordinator: Dr. Darren Bridgewater

Instructors:

  • Dr. Darren Bridgewater
  • Dr. Anna Dvorkin
  • Dr. Aftab Taiyab
  • Dr. Tacuma Isshika
  • Dr. Anmar Ayoub

Interested in contributing?

We seek help from interested students of all ages, patients and the public. The overall goal for our students is to take complicated concepts and make them understandable to a specific target audience. The target audience could be a specific student population (high school students, Grade 5 students, the general public or a specific patient population).

The big question is: how do we know that what we have made is understandable, informative, useful and maybe even enjoyable? To address this concern, we have generated a “Draft Video” page. We will post videos that are “under construction” and have associated this page with an automatic form that allows users to record rankings and comments. The comments are then given back to the students making the videos, who will assess all feedback and attempt to improve their product. We have also included a section where users can indicate specific topics they would want our students to demystify.