Monday Program

Learning with GenAI

8:00-9:00

Pre-conference workshop: Elevating education with mindfulness and contemplative practice
South Room, Woodward Conference Centre

A breakfast workshop that will enhance your engagement with the conference and highlight the potential of contemplative pedagogies.

Facilitators
A/Prof Nicholas Van Dam, Inaugural Director of the Contemplative Studies Centre, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

Dr Christopher T. McCaw, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Education Fellow at the Contemplative Studies Centre

Registrations and further details

8:00-9:00

Pre-conference workshop: Social prescribing in action: Shaping future health professionals
West Room, Woodward Conference Centre

A breakfast workshop that sets the scene for social prescribing (SP) in and beyond Australia and examines how SP may be embedded in health professional education.

Facilitators
A/Prof Karen Donald, Course Coordinator and Fitness to Practice Officer - Doctor of Physiotherapy, Director of Teaching and Learning - Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, MDHS

Siân Slade, Enterprise Fellow (Honorary) and PhD Candidate at the Nossal Institute for Global Health

Registrations and further details

9:00-9:30

Conference registration
Woodward Conference Centre Foyer

9:30-9:40 

Welcome
Main Room, Woodward Conference Centre

Professor Elizabeth Molloy, Deputy Dean Education, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

9:40-10:00

Keynote: Navigating the future of teaching and learning with GenAI
Dr Eduardo Araujo Oliveira, Senior Lecturer, CIS Student Engagement Coordinator, GEM Scott Teaching Fellow, School of Computing and Information Systems.

In this keynote, Eduardo will explore the evolving role of generative AI (GenAI) in reshaping the future of higher education. As AI tools become integral to academic and professional practices, educators face both exciting possibilities and critical challenges. The focus will be on integrating AI thoughtfully into human-centred processes, ensuring it amplifies rather than diminishes creativity, critical thinking, and disciplinary expertise. Eduardo will reflect on the risks of over-delegating tasks to AI, which may lead to homogenised, mediocre outcomes, and will outline strategies to avoid such pitfalls. He will also discuss the importance of AI literacy and frameworks to scaffold and understand the competencies necessary to work alongside AI meaningfully.

10:00-10:50

Learning with GenAI: Student experiences, perspectives and interests
Assumptions abound about student uses of GenAI for learning. But what are students actually doing, what are they seeing be done, and what do they want?

Beginning with some short video snapshots of student uses of GenAI, this special conference event, chaired by Cory Dal Ponte, himself a PhD student as well as a staff member, will then enable sharing and discussion of current students’ experiences and perspectives on uses of GenAI for learning.

Areas of discussion may touch on journeys in usage, innovative applications, and students’ views on what educators – including those right here at this conference – could understand, do and develop for – and with – students as we all engage with the dynamic practices and possibilities for learning afforded by generative AI.

Student panellists
Abi Appathurai, Third year Bachelor of Biomedicine (MDHS)
Jaidah Fergus-Mackie, First year PhD student (MDHS)
Sam Hickman, Final year Bachelor of Science (Faculty of Science)
Brian Kim, Fourth year Doctor of Dental Surgery (MDHS)
Nicole Sze Yong Nga, Third year Bachelor of Biomedicine (MDHS)
Liyara Weerasinghe, First year Bachelor of Science (Faculty of Science)

10:50-11:10

Break


Day 1 Presentation abstracts

 

Extending engagment
Chair: Jess Sturk,
Venue: Main Conference Room, South Side

Collaborations
Chair: Dr Peter Carew,
Venue: Main Conference Room, North Side

Assessment and feedback
Chair: A/Prof Snezana Kusljic, Venue: West Room

GenAI
Chair: Dr Amber Willems-Jones, Venue: South Room

11:10-11:30

Neurodiversity-affirming practice in healthcare education

Ms Stephanie Weir, Dr Hannah Stark, Ms Amy Bonsor, Ms Melissa Vallence, Ms Amy Fitzpatrick

Designing and delivering a global classroom interprofessional learning experience in the area of integrated care for older adults

Dr Marianne Piano, Prof Daisuke Sawamura, Dr Sandra Iuliano, Joanne Bolton, A/Prof Naoya Hasegawa, Prof Rika Yano, Dr Risa Takashima, Dr Thomas Coleman, Prof Peter Lee, A/Prof Kwang Cham

Investigating the effectiveness of an assessment literacy module to improve student evaluative judgement

Dr Angelina Fong, Mr Conor Fitzmaurice, Dr Benjamin Siveges, A/Prof Meredith McKague, Dr Yossi Rathner, A/Prof Piers Howe

Interdisciplinary views of healthcare professions students on artificial intelligence driven virtual patients for learning communication skills

Mr Patrick Bowers, Dr Tracii Ryan, Dr Jey Han Lau, Dr Kelley Graydon, A/Prof Dani Tomlin

11:30-11:50

Culturally safe healthcare for Rainbow Mob 

Dr Ngaree Blow, Dr Nicolle Maganga, Ms Madeline Hudson-Buhagiar, Ms Natalie Bassett-Bokic, Ms Jad David De Busch

Bridging the university-hospital divide: A collaborative approach to health professional education

Ms Lichin Lim, Ms Claire Bauer

Preparing learners for feedback conversations in the health workplace: Findings from a simulation-based pedagogy  

Ms Carolyn Cracknell, Mrs Tamara Clements, A/Prof Leonie Griffiths, Dr Vinita Rane, Ms Lia Carrick, Prof Elizabeth Molloy

Socratic tutor bots powered by GenAI: Responsible training and deployment practices

Mr Keenan Hellyer, A/Prof Charles Sevigny

11:50-12:10

Introduction of a trauma-informed curriculum in the DPT: Creating safer spaces for physiotherapy student learning of peer physical examination 

Ms Jessica Lees, Dr Free Coulston, Dr Rachel Toovey, Dr Kim Allison, Dr Kath Sellick, A/Prof Selina Parry, Dr Megan Sharp, Prof Catherine Granger

Fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration to enhance mental health and alcohol and other drugs (MH AOD) student placements

Ms Jo Bolton, Mr Thomas Connell, Ms Carolyn Cracknell, Ms Denise Ho, A/Prof Vivienne Mak, Ms Meredith Oldis, Ms Victoria Rayner

Transforming large classrooms: rethinking assessment for learning and feedback using two-stage exams

A/Prof Odilia Wijburg, Dr Jiangli Tan, A/Prof Terry Mulhern, Dr Charlotte Clarke, Dr Michael Murray, A/Prof Vicki Lawson, Ms Louise Adams

Hands on with generative AI workshop

(11.50 - 12.50)

Mr Cory Dal Ponte, and Dr Kayley Lyons

12:10-12:30

Incorporating lived experience in the design and delivery of mental health curricula across the Faculty of MDHS 

Dr Caitlin McDowell, Ms Hannah Blackwell, Dr Kath Sellick, Dr Cathy Daniel, Prof Lisa Phillips, A/Prof Mahesh Jayaram, Chrissie Loft, A/Prof Paul Badcock

Speech Pathology & Nursing students’ experience of an inter-professional EMR-based patient case simulation

Dr Sophie Jones, Ms Stephanie Weir, Dr Josh Allen, Dr Lauren Zarb, Ms Lottie Morrison

Reflecting on the process of learning leads to deep critical reflection

Dr Charlotte Clark, Alexa Chua-San Andres

12:30-12:50

TikTok: A way for health students to learn together

Dr Wonie Uahtanasakul, Dr Stephanie Brown, Dr Carolyn Van Heerden, Mr Tomas Arvanitis

Collaborative development of a framework for interprofessional experiential learning in health research and evaluation to optimise student outcomes

Dr Rachel Toovey, A/Prof Lucio Naccarella, Dr Free Coulston, Ms Georgia Bartlett

Developing effective communication skills in audiology using anonymous patient feedback

Dr Kelley Graydon, Mr Patrick Bowers

12:50-1:00

Theme wrap up

Theme wrap up

Theme wrap up

1:00-2:00Lunch at the Woodward

9.30am – 2.00pm, 21 – 22 October 2024 Woodward Conference Centre
Contact: Tim Beaumont | timothy.beaumont@unimelb.edu.au