SCS Education Event - Nothing is Certain but Uncertainty: Helping our students prepare for the certainty of uncertainty through our teaching practices

Nothing is Certain but Uncertainty: Helping our students prepare for the certainty of uncertainty through our teaching practices

• Date : Friday 5 November, 2021
• Time: 2 - 3pm (AEDT)
• Presented by: A/Prof Michelle Lazarus
• Access: Monash Zoom or go to Monash Zoom login and enter meeting ID: ID: 854 5057 2480 and passcode: 909558

In addition to defining uncertainty tolerance and its role in wellbeing and career success, this session will highlight evidenced-based:

• Practical and purposeful teaching practices educators can foster (or hinder) students’ uncertainty tolerance in a unit/course/curriculum
• Impacts on short-term, and long-term student outcomes (i.e. responses to uncertainties)
• Considerations when designing curriculum inculcated with uncertainty/ambiguities/ unknowns/complexities

A/Prof Michelle Lazarus serves as the Director of the Monash Centre for Human Anatomy Education (CHAE) within the Biomedical Discovery Institute. Additionally, she is the Curriculum Integration Network lead within the Monash Centre Scholarship in Health Education (MCSHE) as well as a Monash Education Academy Fellow, anatomy education discipline lead within the medical curriculum, and a core member of the General Surgical Science Examination Board for Royal Australian College of Surgeons. Her recent work explores the role of uncertainty within healthcare science education, challenging A/Prof’s Lazarus’s own tolerance of uncertainty (an academic irony).