#17 Teaching Medicine Using Cricket & Movies

A special episode as we have a guest this week, Dr. Anuradha Joshi who shares with us her creative teaching methods. You are in for a treat as she shares with us her ways to put the "zest back in teaching".

Dr. Anuradha Joshi is a creative educationist and a motivational coach for medical students. She is a medical health care professional, a Ph.D. &   FAIMER fellow (FAIMER is affiliated to Philadelphia), passionate about practicing creative teaching and effective learning strategies in classrooms. She has presented numerous papers and posters at state, national and international levels, as well as, invited as a resource person for delivering guest lectures on Creative Teaching in  Pharmacology/Pharmacy and Medical education, Effective learning strategies in students, Self- directed learning, pertinent Pharmacology Topics like Antibiotic Stewardship Program, Medication Errors, Prescription Errors, Drug Alert Modules, Pharmacovigilance, Thalidomide Tragedy, Active Teaching and Learning modules in Pharmacology, etc. She has conducted more than 15 workshops at schools and colleges (at the state & national level) on effective learning strategies for students as well as on Creative teaching-learning strategies for faculty. She has published more than  50 papers on topics pertaining to medical education, creative methods of teaching and Pharmacology, to date. Dr. Anuradha Joshi has been conferred the title of Creative Pedagogy Trainer by the President of the International Academy of Genius, California, USA (2019). Dr. Anuradha Joshi has been in the arena of teaching for 25 years now. She is someone who believes that every life is rich if only one notices the innocuous intricacies that surround it. She believes that life is a journey of learning and finds her calling in becoming an agent that helps create sparks of academic bliss in the careers of those she mentors.

And you can read her papers here

Paper 1 - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340424239_Using_Autobiography_a_Pedagogical_tool_in_Pharmacology_Traversing_the_Un-explored

Paper 2 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283623130_Cardiovascular_drug_fun_cricket_Students'_perception_on_an_innovative_active_teaching-learning_method_in_pharmacology

Today's eTool / App is Headspace. As we continue to mitigate the pandemic, Headspace is an excellent tool to help students build healthy habits to build a resilient mindset. Check them out here - https://www.headspace.com/educators

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