U21 Health Sciences Group Annual Meeting 2021

Welcoming Video

Prof. Jenny Dixon

U21 Provost

Clinical Simulation Workshop

Development of online simulation learning materials, simulation assessment applications and formal education for simulation practitioners

1. Opening and welcome – Prof. Craig Vincent-Lambert (Chair U21 Health Sciences Simulation Learning Group)
   
   
2. Introduction to simulation learning activities at Tec De Monterrey - Elena Ríos Barrientos, MD
   
   
3. Training Video Project update - Allison Mandrusiak, PhD
   
   
4. Update on the PG Diploma in Clinical Simulation – Karien Henrico, PhD
   
   
5. Update on the SATLAB Application project – Andrew Makkink, PhD
   
   
6. Closure and the way forward – Prof. Craig Vincent-Lambert, PhD

U21 HSG Interprofessional Education Group (IPE) Forum

Developing Collaboration for IPE Research

Are you interested in interprofessional education (IPE)?
Does research in this important area spark your interest?
In this session, hear from presenters about developing collaboration for IPE research, around topics including:
Key areas of focus for research in IPE; What counts as good scholarship in IPE research? and What topics might we progress?
There will be time for questions to the panel, so come along and join the conversation.

• Welcome Sharon Buckley (Chair)
  Dr. Silvia Olivares Olivares (Tecnológico de Monterrey) – video about IPE initiatives at Tecnológico de Monterrey
  
  
• Introduction Sharon Buckley
  
  
• Keynote presentation "What counts as good scholarship in IPE research?" =
  Prof. Jill Thistlethwaite
  
  
• Panel
  - Key areas of focus for IPE research = Dr. Emily Audet, Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust, UK
  - What topics might we progress? = Dr. Fraide Ganotice , Hong Kong University
  
  
• Panel discussion - Panel members = Dr. Emily Audet, Dr. Fraide Ganotice , Dr. Silvia Olivares Olivares
  
  
• Summary + Close Sharon Buckley

Sustainable Development Goals Forum

The impact of COVID 19 on the SDGs

This year, our Annual SDG Workshop will focus reflections and discussions on identifying the impact that Covid has had on the SDGs and how the goals have been affected.

• Session topic: ‘Students as advocates for the SDGs’
  Contributors:
  University of Melbourne
  University of Johannesburg
  University of Glasgow Chair: Susanne Brokop, Lund University
  
  
• Keynote Session
  Session Topic: Global Vaccine Inequity- Impact on SDGs
  Speakers: Professor Refilwe Mafuya-Phaswana, University of Johannesburg & Professor Manuel Perez, Tecnológico de Monterrey
  Chair: Sandra Cardenas, Tecnológico de Monterrey
  
  
• Session topic: ‘The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on how we teach and facilitate learning about the SDGs’ Contributors:
  University of Johannesburg
  University of Birmingham
  Tecnológico de Monterrey
  Chair: Nadia D’alton, University College Dublin
  
  
• Closing remarks- Cliona O’Sullivan, University College Dublin, Co-Chair of the Universitas 21 Sustainable Development Goals Initiative

Virtual International Doctoral Student Forum

One Health Related Research

The Virtual International Doctoral Student Forum aims to encourage students to share their research and educational experiences in the pandemic and post-pandemic eras, considering the diversity of career opportunities available following completion.

Welcome Address by Arturo Santos García, MD, PhD. School of Medicine and Health Sciences. TecSalud

Master sessions

• Prof. Marco Antonio Rito Palomares, PhD.
  “Research strategies against COVID-19 from TecSalud”
  Q&A: Mirna Alejandra González González, MD, PhD. TecSalud
• Joaquín Alejandro Zúñiga Ramos, MD, PhD.
  “Emerging respiratory viruses, lung damage mechanisms”. TecSalud
  Q&A: Patricia Segura Medina, BSD, PhD. TecSalud
• Cynthia Mayté Villarreal Garza, MD, PhD.
  “From necessity to research and from research to clinical application in Breast Cancer in Mexico”. TecSalud Hospitals.
  Q&A: Héctor Marcelino Díaz Pérez, PhD student. TecSalud

Doctoral Student Presentation

• Q&A: Raquel Cuevas Díaz Durán, PhD. TecSalud
• Q&A: Mildred Vanessa López Cabrera, PhD. TecSalud

Discussion forum

“New reality in the post-Covid stage: process that the doctoral student lives”

Communications Meeting

Cutting through the noise and sharing your voice

Representatives from the U21 HSG Communications Group will discuss how your university’s communications team promotes your expert perspective.

Welcome and Introduction: Claire Packer (Chair)

Presentations:

• Claire Packer and Caroline Durbin from the University of Birmingham’s communications team will discuss ‘How to share your voice without publishing a paper’. Using examples from the COVID-19 pandemic they will talk through how they worked with academics and professional services colleagues to make the most of networks, events, videos and opinion pieces to raise the profile of colleagues and the University without waiting for a paper to be published.
• Margarita Espino Barros Jiménez from Tecnológico de Monterrey will talk through further examples from the COVID-19 pandemic, including how the communications team promoted a mental health initiative set up by medical researchers.

Discipline Group Meeting – Biomedical Sciences

Teaching laboratory skills post-Covid

One of the greatest challenges in Higher Education during the Covid pandemic, especially for STEM and healthcare disciplines, is the delivery of skills training. In Biomedical Science, most laboratories were closed or operating with greatly reduced capacity. The response of the education community has been remarkable, with many innovative examples of delivering lab skills training. These approaches, combining physical and digital approaches to teaching and learning, will be explored during this session. We will hear from our key speakers who have implemented these approaches, as well as the views of our students. This will be followed by a Q&A panel session. Please join us for what promises to be an enlightening session, and join the discussion on how we deliver lab skills training in the future. This session will be relevant to all disciplines in U21 HSG where skills training is a key element of the educational requirements.

Agenda

• Welcome and introduction – John Curnow
• Presentation 1:
  Teresa Thomas, University of Birmingham: ‘What have we learnt from the replacement of live practicals with online alternatives? A holistic approach to practical and research skills delivery’
• Presentation 2:
  Mike Shipston, University of Edinburgh: ‘Enhancing practical and research skill development through integration of digital delivery’
• Questions and discussion for Presentation 1 and 2
• Presentation 3:
  Gee Chong Ling, University of New South Wales: ‘Creation of interactive virtual laboratory lesson using immersive technology’
• Presentation 4:
  Tom Flanagan & Mark Pickering, University College Dublin: ‘The Zoom Womb: Development & Nurturing of Innovative Online Anatomy Classes (at UCD Medicine)’
• Questions and discussion on Presentation 3 and 4
• Final discussion and close – John Curnow

University Mental Health Meeting

Theme: The U21 University Mental Health Declaration in a Post-Covid World

OnSession: Hosts - Barbara Dooley, UCD, Maria Gardini, University of Glasgow and Annie Temane, University of Johannesburg
Facilitator: Professor Barbara Dooley, University College Dublin: Introduction to the session, speakers and any housekeeping.

Speaker 1: Professor Annie Temane, University of Johannesburg and Dr Maria Gardini, University of Glasgow
Presentation: U21 Declaration and overview of the U21 Mental Health Working Group Student Fellowship

• Brief overview of the U21 University Mental Health Declaration and key principles.
• Introduction of the student fellow mental health project against Principle 2: Students and staff are at the heart of our concern; therefore all discussions and delivery of improved services around mental health will consult and engage with the community it aims to serve
• Brief overview of the aims and process for the student fellowships and introduction of the fellows.

Speaker 2: Student Group: Joseph Lawrence, University of Glasgow, Amelia Hilton, University of Glasgow, Mapaseka Dolo, University of Johannesburg and Siphosethu Cele, University of Johannesburg
Presentation: U21 Mental Health Working Group Student Fellows

• Initial reflections on how the declaration applies in their universities.
• Overview of the process they are undertaking as part of the fellowship
• What unique perspectives can students bring to a process of understanding mental health responses in universities.

Q&A: Facilitated by Maria and Annie

Speaker 3: Gareth Hughes, Clinical Lead Student Minds, University of Derby
Presentation: “Whole university approaches to student mental health.”
Q&A and wrap up facilitated by Barbara Dooley

International Development Group (IDG) Meeting

Theme: Challenges around supporting international students during the pandemic, and ideas for post-pandemic support including ongoing online opportunities

Agenda

• Welcome and introduction – Margaret Tiuchta, University College Dublin (Chair)
• Series of five-minute presentations from U21 HSG member universities:
  • Irene Hui Senior International Placements and Partnerships Officer
    Faculty of Medicine
    The University of Queensland
  • Dr Rodrigo Figueroa
    Director of International Affairs
    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Michelle Beagan
    Senior Partnerships Advisor
    The University of Edinburgh
• Questions and discussion on presentations and overall theme.
• Final discussion and close – Margaret Tiuchta

Discipline Group Meeting – Dentistry

How dentists perceive & address unique patient communication challenges in general dental practice by Darina Nirmalann

Dentistry keynote lecture "How dentists perceive & address unique patient communication challenges in general dental practice" by Darina Nirmalann.

• Q&A Session
• Dentistry discussion forum

Discipline Group Meeting – Medicine

The Discipline Groups provide members across the U21 HSG an opportunity for networking, sharing of information and resources relevant to their discipline area and, collaborating on joint projects.

Secrets for high performing Interdisciplinary Health Teams
Dr. César Lucio, MD

• Welcome & Introduction, Manuel Pérez
• Main Conference, Dr. César Lucio
• Discussion forum
• Q&A Session
• Closing remarks

Cultural Activity- Mexican Muralism: Talk

Lizzette Zaldivar, Leader of Artistic Heritage at Tecnológico de Monterrey, will give you a presentation of our main Mural at Tecnologico de Monterrey Campus Monterrey, which is a high relief carved in rock and adorned with mosaic. It represents the daily triumph of civilization and culture over the dark forces of stagnation and apathy. To illustrate this, Jorge González Camarena chose the battle and victory of Quetzalcóatl over Tezcatlipoca..

A presentation of our Mural History of Medicine of 1969, by José Reyes Meza (1924-2011), at Tecnológico de Monterrey School of Medicine and Health Sciences, CITES building (Center for Innovation and Knowledge Transference in Health). Cultural Heritage of Tecnológico de Monterrey®.

Lizzette Zaldivar

She has a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts at the National School of Plastic Arts of the UNAM. A Master in Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM. She has been dedicated to the implementation and management of artistic and educational projects in museums INBA , for over ten years and in research, academic work and project management of art exhibitions. Her has been exhibited individually and collectively in Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Colombia and the Czech Republic.

Discipline Group Meeting – Health & Rehabilitation Sciences

Digital Learnings for a Post-Covid World

Amongst the disruptions caused by a global pandemic, this has been a most fruitful time for educational innovation. Hear from educators across the U21 Health and Rehabilitation Sciences network who have discovered creative ways to address teaching and learning challenges, drawing on digital learnings as we look towards the future.

• Welcome, overview of meeting - Chair
• Invited presentation:"Developing the Global Health Challenges Digital Module"- Ben Ellis (UoB)
• “Trade show”
  - Showcase of digital strategies
  - Share tips and tricks
  - Share advice for longevity
  
  
• Core members (or proxy):
  - Emma Beckman (UQ)
  - Lynn Smith (UJ)
  - Javiera Fuentes (PUC)
  - Allison Mandrusiak (UQ)
  - Susanne Brokop (Lund)
  
  
• Q&A
• Close Chair

Discipline Group Meeting – Nursing & Midwifery

Compassion after Covid-19

The nursing and midwifery discipline meeting will include 5 presentations focused on nursing and midwifery research and experiences of compassion during and in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. There will be presentations from UK, New Zealand and South Africa representing collaborations across the U21 network. There will also be an opportunity for participating schools to introduce themselves and their teaching & learning and research focus. We are looking forward to seeing as many U21 university members from our Nursing and Midwifery schools as possible.

Theme presentation from:

• Welcome and introduction - Julia Slark
  
  
• Short update from each member university – All
  
  
• Presentation 1 and 2
  - Annie Topping, University of Birmingham and Stephen Jacobs, University of Auckland to deliver a presentation on the wellbeing of nurses
  - Mrs Lerato Matshaka (PhD Candidate), University of Johannesburg ‘The impact of COVID-19 on student nurses and nursing academics at higher education institutions in South Africa’.
  
  
• Questions and discussion on presentations 1 and 2
  
  
• Presentation 3 and 4:
  - Alastair Hewison, University of Birmingham and Gigi Lim, University of Auckland “Compassionate Leadership in Healthcare: an international study of the experience of health professionals”
  - Maria Pearson, University of Nottingham “Compassion: an exploration of student midwives’ academic and clinical learning during their midwifery education.”
  
  
• Questions and discussion on presentations 3 and 4
  
  
• Final discussion and close – Julia Slark

Discipline Group Meeting – Pharmacy

Implementing Electronic Healthcare Records in Undergraduate Education

The Pharmacy groups session will be workshop/discussion on ‘Implementing Electronic Healthcare Records in Undergraduate Education.’ Lead by Dr Sarah Pontefract, Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy, University of Birmingham, and Dr Kurt Wilson, Teaching Fellow, Lead for Prescribing, Medical School, University of Manchester. This subject will be of interest to others besides the Pharmacy Group and is open to anyone from any of the professions interested in this important area of preparing healthcare professionals for the shift from paper to digital systems.

• Welcome – Anthony Cox, Chair of the U21 HSG Pharmacy Discipline group
• Presentation - Implementing Electronic Healthcare Records in Undergraduate Education.
  by Dr Sarah Pontefract, Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy, University of Birmingham, and Dr Kurt Wilson, Teaching Fellow, Lead for Prescribing, Medical School, University of Manchester.
• Q&A session
• Wrap up and close – Anthony Cox

Opening Addresses

Guillermo Torre Amione, M.D., PhD

Rector of TecSalud and Vice President of Research at Tecnológico de Monterrey

Core Meeting Session I

Plenary: Prevention, Wellbeing and Longevity before and after COVID-19

• Guillermo Torre, MD, PhD
  TecSalud

The search for longevity can be related to the slowdown in aging, and psycho-physical wellbeing is often associated with the lifestyle, mainly to human physical activity and nutrition. Unfortunately, marketing and publicity are oriented to promote non-healthy food and nutritional habits. In Mexico, the pandemic evidenced a higher morbidity rate than other countries due to pre-existing chronic diseases like diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. Mental health issues have been exacerbated by COVID lockdown and social, political, and educational disruptions, challenging the safety and wellbeing of several age groups. Besides those risk factors, public and non-public hospitals provide heterogeneous quality care standards. Since prevention and wellbeing are multifactorial, solutions should be part of the plan from several sectors, including health care, education, and government. Collaboration among institutions could address better solutions through resolutive interventions for preventive medicine and a healthy lifestyle. Academic Health Centers provide education, assistance, and advanced research and technology focused on improving and prolonging quality of life. Education for interprofessional education should embrace formal research, innovation, and orientation to prevention instead of treatment. Interinstitutional research should be organized, approved by authorities and free of individual or cultural biases. A new focus for the patient's comprehensive self-care and wellbeing could shape the required social commitment to achieve a cultural change in health in Mexico.

Panel: Healthcare challenges for prevention, wellbeing, and longevity

• Guillermo Torre, MD, PhD
  TecSalud
• Patrick Felle, MD, MSc
  University College Dublin
• Jorge Browne, MD, MPH
  Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Silvia Olivares, PhD (Moderator)
  Tecnológico de Monterrey

Core Meeting Session II

Plenary: The reality of the pandemic and Health Professions Education: are we living an alternate reality?

• Melchor Sánchez Mendiola, M.D.
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented disruptive and fluid setting, where the priorities and traditional methods of health professions education have been shaken to their core. The current biological and social cataclysm has profoundly affected healthcare systems and universities in a global scale. Training of healthcare professionals at all educational levels (undergraduate, postgraduate and continuous professional development) has had to adapt to many simultaneous changes, including the need for online teaching and learning assessment, the complex situation of clinical care with the resurgence of telehealth and telemedicine, plus a myriad other social, financial, emotional, mental health and personal issues. This tsunami of changes creates an environment where reality seems like a mirage that reaccommodates itself in very short periods of time, making it difficult to plan, develop, implement and evaluate curricula, teaching and assessment methods, faculty development initiatives, as well as reskilling and upskilling needs assessment. There is an urgent need to establish solid diagnoses and remediation strategies for the clinical and psychomotor skills that were not acquired properly during the more severe phases of the pandemic, and to help recover the mental and emotional health of students, faculty and health care professionals. The variety and depth of global and local responses to these challenges, which sometimes seemed insurmountable, are witnesses to the creativity, professionalism and overall resiliency of physicians, nurses, students and all types of healthcare professionals, since during the past year a great number of resources and novel strategies to attempt to solve these issues were created, shared and practiced everywhere. In these multiple-realities cacophony, there are literally thousands of proposals, narratives, anecdotes and tales of creativity and courage, that should serve us to continue recovering from the pandemic in more sensible, educationally sound, sustainable and collaborative ways, adopting systemic thinking strategies, using the lenses of participative and transformational leadership, as well as the foundations of complexity and implementation sciences. Our new reality is here for us to build upon and move to better futures.

Panel: The alternate reality of Health Professions Education

• Melchor Sánchez Mendiola, M.D.
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• John Curnow, PhD
  University of Birmingham
• Lilian Ferrer Lagunas, PhD
  Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Silvia Olivares, PhD (Moderator)
  Tecnológico de Monterrey

Q&A with panelists

Discipline Group Meeting – Public Health

The Discipline Groups provide members across the U21 HSG network an opportunity for networking, sharing of information and resources relevant to their discipline area and, collaborating on joint projects.

Theme: Covid-19, implications for policy and training public health professionals

Session summary:

• The session will be chaired by Martin Stafstrom, Lund University
• Health policy implications of the Covid-19 pandemic – Bernard Taderera, University of Johannesburg
  - Discussion
• How will the pandemic affect MPH program curriculas – Emma Apatu and students from McMaster University
  - Discussion

Discipline Group Meeting – Dentistry (continuation)

Short presentations from members to share experiences of Dentistry education during the pandemic.

Cultural Activity- Healthy Mexican Cuisine

In this session María Luisa Balli, M,D., PhD., Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey School of Medicine and Health Sciences, will give you the experience to cook a special delicious healthy Mexican dish and eat it without guilt.

Nopal or Nopalitos, the common name for a cactus, is one of the special ingredients for a healthy meal, combine with eggs, meat or another component, makes wonderful diversity Mexican cuisine dishes.

Nopal pads can be eaten raw or cooked into marmalades, soups, stew and salads, also can be used as traditional medicine.

Our food is sealed with our Mexican folklore, culture and believes. The spirit of our ancestors.

María Luisa Balli, M.D., PhD.

Professor at the Tecnológico de Monterrey School of Medicine and Health Sciences, is a Medical Doctor, with a Master in Teaching Biological Sciences, and a Doctorate in Clinical Nutrition. She also has an International Master in Nutrition and Dietetics, María Luisa Balli is certified as Educator in Diabetes and Healthy Cuisine for a Healthy Life, also is a member of the American Association of Diabetes Educators, National Wellness Institute, American College of Wellness, Medical Fitness Association, American Dietetic Association, Institute of Lifestyle Medicine and Consortium of Integrative Medicine.

Executive Committee Meeting

CLOSED MEETING

University Mental Health Meeting (continuation)

Theme: Focus on mental health and wellbeing of PhD/PGR students

Session: Hosts – Vivienne Browne, Orygen and Stuart Carney, UQ
Facilitator: Vivienne Browne, Orygen (University of Melbourne): Introduction to the session, speakers and any housekeeping.

Speaker 1: Belinda Bern Director, UQ Graduate School and Dr Stacey Parker, School of Psychology, University of Queensland
Presentation: Higher Degree Researchers Wellbeing, Engagement and Research Culture (WERC) Project, UQ
This project aimed to understand more deeply the factors contributing to a positive HDR experience, including indicators of wellbeing and engagement, such as meaning in life and HDR motivation, and factors that should contribute to these positive HDR experiences, including the role of supervisors, a supportive research environment, having a sense of belonging, as well as other elements such as HDR-life balance. In addition, sources of support and career identity were explored to better understand the needs of candidates during and after their HDR program.

Speaker 2: Professor Carolyn Dewa and Elizabeth Sturdy, Director of Mentoring and Academic Success Initiatives, UC Davis
Presentation: Faculty Academy of Graduate Student Well-Being which is invested in the support of graduate student well-being.
This initiative will train faculty to deliver graduate student seminars on mental health and well-being within graduate programs. It addresses skills to deal with common graduate school stresses by introducing graduate students to the scientific evidence regarding stress and tools for self-care. The skills introduced in this course can be used both personally and professionally. This program is designed to empower faculty across campus to instruct similar courses within their own graduate programs. A train-the-trainer model that will build a cohort of faculty that can lead initiatives to promote graduate student well-being.

Q&A and wrap up Facilitated by Vivienne Browne and Professor Stuart Carney

Teaching Excellence Award Workshop

• Welcome and Introduction: Angeles Domínguez Cuenca, PhD
• Workshop title: "Experiences of the Online Educator. Pandemic and Beyond"
  The COVID 19 pandemic has undoubtedly influenced the practice of education for educators around the world. Necessary digital adaptations were frequently mandated to ensure minimal disruptions to Health Professions Education (HPE), wherever possible. This context provides a unique opportunity to ask a series of questions about HPE, including: how satisfied were HPEs about their roles as teacher prior the pandemic? What were some of the pre-pandemic online educational practices that were emerging for HPEs? In general, how satisfied were students with online learning prior to the pandemic? These questions now form a backdrop to interpret peri-pandemic literature about the experience of educators. More specifically, the purpose of this interactive workshop is to provide an opportunity for U21 Health Sciences Group HPEs to come together to reflect on their experiences as educators from around the world during the pandemic and to review the literature about educator experiences within this unique context. Do we see our educator selves and our pandemic stories reflected in the available literature? Why might this matter? Focusing on the educator voice, we aim to bring to the fore a discussion about what makes an educational practice sustainable during these challenging times and how the educator experience is critical in shaping an ongoing agenda of student engagement.
  
  
• Facilitated by Dr Norman Ng, University of Queensland & Dr Sheila Harms, McMaster University
• Breakout rooms
• Closing remarks

Deans of Medicine Meeting

CLOSED MEETING

Welcoming video

Patrick Felle, MD, MSc

Chair of the U21 HSG

Core Meeting Session III

Plenary: Post-Covid World: Leaving no one behind

• Rodrigo Mariño, D.M.D., PhD
  Melbourne Dental School
  The University of Melbourne

During this COVID-19 pandemic, the ability to reach out to the community, social, health and education services providers remotely through conventional face-to-face interaction, was challenged and threatened. Nonetheless, much of the activity moved online. Digital solutions available today (e.g., computers, internet, smartphones, and apps) allowed and provided the foundation for alternative ways to interact and provide services. In particular, the current healthcare and education systems have met a wide range of challenges as well as opportunities initiated by this pandemic. It also provided new perspectives on post pandemic actions to keep, expand and accelerate these advancements and attain future requirements. Still, the COVID-19 pandemic has accentuated the socioeconomic and academic gaps affecting millions of people around the world, both within and between countries, as not everybody has the same access to these tools, or the capacity to use digital tools. This has increased unfairness around access to healthcare and education. Now is the time to inform post-pandemic policies needed to recover and rebuild national health and education systems. We need an approach based in digital technology, but one that ensures that no one is left behind. This presentation will discuss the lessons learnt when applying digital solutions to health and education. It will focus on challenges, and approaches to digital solutions for the development of programs to help reduce the health inequities.

Panel: Interprofessional reflections from Covid abrupt changes

• Rodrigo Mariño, D.M.D., PhD
  University of Melbourne
• Ana Cecilia Sosa, DDS
  Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Arnoldo Riquelme, MD, Med
  Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Jorge Martínez, DDS (Moderator)
  Tecnológico de Monterrey

Q&A with panelists

Core Meeting Session IV

Plenary: Academic excellence with Social Accountability in Covid times

• Klaus Püshcel I., M.D., MPH, MSc
  Centre for Medical and Health Professions Education
  Faculty of Medicine
  Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

The Covid-19 pandemic has enlarged health disparities around the world. The effect has been especially dramatic in Latin America. The five years pre-pandemic situation already showed an increasing trend of poverty levels in the region from 27.8% to 30.5%. In this scenario, underserved populations in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile experienced 50% to 400% excess mortality rates from Covid-19 compared to wealthier populations from these countries. Lower access to community and primary care services to assure timely diagnosis, contact tracing, and isolation, in addition to lower access to intensive care units, were some of the factors associated with higher fatality rates among underserved populations in Latin America. In contrast, the region has experienced an outbreak of new medical schools during the last three decades. Most of them have declared that social accountability and primary care were at the core of their mission. However, the evidence shows that most medical schools in the region do not have implemented strong primary care training programs and that there is high variability in their level of social accountability measured by a standardized instrument. The Covid 19 epidemic has highlighted specific areas for improving social accountability among medical schools.

Panel: Future implications of Social Accountability

• Klaus Püshcel I., M.D., MPH, MSc
  Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Cynthia Villarreal-Muraira, MPP
  Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Marcio Gomes, MD, PhD
  University of Ottawa
• Silvia Olivares, PhD (Moderator)
  Tecnológico de Monterrey

Q&A with panelists

Core Meeting Session V

Plenary: Healthcare leadership development in the post-Covid world

• Jorge E. Valdez García, M.D., PhD
  Dean of School of Medicine and Health Sciences
  Tecnológico de Monterrey

According to Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Greatness is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving." These times where we face the challenges of post covid world require people to see beyond the everyday problem. The leaders are responsible for setting the direction we must go, but they must have the skills to convince others to move in that direction. Our challenge as an institution of higher education is to develop the talent that will face the emergent reality and create new opportunities for a healthier society. We need to educate leaders that will shape the future in the health sector. Leadership exists when people cease to be victims of circumstances and actively participate in creating new possibilities. Leadership involves creating an environment where human beings continually deepen their understanding of the context and become more capable of participating in global events. In this sense, leadership is about creating new realities. The Medical and Health Science Schools need to promote the concept of self-leadership in their students. This concept is the capacity for intentional and conscious influence on one's thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to achieve the personal goals we have set ourselves. This new reality of a post-pandemic world demands more leaders to ensure a healthy environment for human flourishment.

Panel: Leadership perspectives across institutions

• Jorge E. Valdez García, M.D., PhD
  Tecnológico de Monterrey
• John Leach, MD
  University of Glasglow
• Felipe Heusser, MD
  Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Silvia Olivares, PhD (Moderator)
  Tecnológico de Monterrey

Q&A with panelists

Wrap up

Jorge E. Valdez García, M.D., PhD

• Closing Address Virtual Farewell Toast
• Final Reports U21 Health Sciences Group Annual
• Meeting 2021
• Presentation of 2022 Annual Meeting Host
• Reports U21 Health Sciences Group Annual
• Meeting 2021
• Feedback Survey

Feedback Survey
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Final ReportsU21 Health Sciences Group Annual Meeting 2021

• Clinical Simulation Workshop
• Virtual International Doctoral Student Forum
• Sustainable Development Goals Forum
• Communications Meeting
• International Development Group (IDG) Meeting
• Executive Committee Meeting
• Discipline Group Meeting – Biomedical Sciences
• Discipline Group Meeting – Dentistry
• Discipline Group Meeting – Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
  

Cultural Activity- Mezcal Tasting

Enrique Támes, PhD, Human Flourishing Projects Director, an expert in Mezcal, will give you a virtual tour of the essence of Mezcal, way to drink it, how to flavor it, how to choose a brand and of course the artisanal experience of tasting.

In this way you can appreciate the flavor, the color, the aroma; the spirits of tasting Mezcal.

Enrique Tamés

He is a philosopher with a master’s degree in education and a PhD in Innovation. The former Dean of the School of Humanities and Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Enrique was also regional Vice-Rector at University Tecmilenio, and Director of the Institute of Happiness and Wellbeing.

During his career, he has researched and published in a variety of areas. In addition to doing research in Latin American cultural values, he has spent a great deal of his career developing our understanding of the impact of aesthetics, contemporary art, technology, and education on society. His most recent topic of interest is understanding wellbeing and happiness, from a philosophical approach, in today's world.

He has been a visiting researcher at the Getty Institute, the University of Loyola in Chicago, as well as a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and at Yale University. In 2013 he developed and taught the course Latin American Cultural Values, a MOOC for more than 40,000 students worldwide.

Enrique is a Certified Coach (Newfield Consulting) and is Certified on Appreciative Inquiry (Case Western Research University) as well as alumni of Singularity University. Enrique is a photographer, he has participated in solo and collective expositions, he promotes the understanding of the cultural heritage of mezcal, and practices meditation (Vedic, Qi Gong) on a daily basis.