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).

SCS Friday Catch Up Drinks and Trivia – A Night to remember

What a hoot it was at the recent SCS Friday Drinks and Trivia Night, hosted by Quiz Master, Eugene Fredericks (yep, that’s our School Manager in a pink suit doing his night job thing).   A total of 13 teams with 63 participants (not to mention some partners and kids in the background) took up the challenge with a drink in hand to pit their smarts against each other to vie for the SCS Trivia Champion title.

Eugene posed a myriad of visual and sound questions over 5 rounds covering music, geography, literature, pop culture, movies, tv shows, art, etc etc, like these ones below – have a go yourself!

After an intense, but fun one-and-a-half hours, We’re going nutty* took out FIRST PLACE at 85 points beating GILZ-Pilz Cure your Illz and The Barkers who tied for second at 82 points.  The Savage Cabbages managed to stomp in at 4th place, hedging over The Cognitive Deficits; Jin’s Jedis; Nurse Ratched’s Henchmen; The Dream Team; Dr Brian Astrid-Eddi; The Happy Demons; Quizly Tiny Brains;  Katto and Gwennie’s Gurus.  (REFER TO SCOREBOARD)

*Note: For the purpose of bragging rights, the winning team We’re Going Nutty are from the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics & Food: Tracy McCaffrey (Captain), Evelyn Volders, Maxine Bonham and Andrea Bryce. 

Thank you to everyone who joined in and made everything fun!  Let’s look forward to our next SCS social function (virtual) – if you have any suggestions, please email jinleng.graham@monash.edu. 

University staff vaccination status for renewing Authorised Worker Permits

Sent on behalf of Dr Eugene Fredericks, Manager, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health

All Monash University Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences staff with Authorised Worker permits received an e-mail from Monash HR on 12 October 2021, and we draw your attention to the urgent and important requirement for you to show evidence of your vaccination status by 15 October (Friday) so that you can continue to work onsite at a Monash University Site or healthcare facility.  

Your permit will be invalid from 15 October 2021 until you provide evidence of your vaccination status through Monash’s Vaccinate Monash form.

As outlined by the Chief Human Resources Officer, Monash Authorised Workers must provide evidence of their vaccination status through Monash’s Vaccinate Monash form before 15 October. You will no longer be authorised to attend work with your permit if you do not comply with these requirements and confirm your COVID-19 vaccination status.

MNHS Authorised Workers working in healthcare facilities

Additionally, the Victorian Chief Health Officer has released a direction on mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers outlining clear requirements for COVID-19 vaccination for all staff that enter a Victorian Health Service site from 15 October. 

If you do not meet these requirements you will not be able to attend a healthcare facility from 15 October 2021.  To access healthcare sites, you will need to follow the instructions of your healthcare site regarding providing evidence of your vaccination status for their systems, as well as submitting your proof of vaccination to the University. 

Monash staff without an Authorised Worker Permit

All other staff are working from home until 5 November, or when the state reaches 80% double vaccination, and will receive further information about  providing evidence of their vaccination status in line with Victoria’s Roadmap and with the University’s Roadmap to Reactivation.

Information for Hudson staff who receive this message:

1. Hudson Institute has issued Authorised Worker Permits to its staff. Staff with Hudson-issued permits should follow the instructions of Hudson.
2. There are a number of Hudson staff who hold fractional paid appointments at the University. In this case, as the University needs to capture information for all of the staff on its payroll, your assistance in submitting this information to cover your University appointment is required, please. 

EASB 1st Virtual International Scientific Conference

The Endometriosis Adenomyosis Society of Bangladesh (EASB) will be convening its 1st Virtual International Scientific Conference on 15-16 October 2021. 

The conference will be held during Bangladesh Standard Time (5 hrs behind AEDT). 

There will be 40 speakers, including Professor Caroline Gargett (Ritchie Centre/Monash University), Professor Luk Rombauts (Monash Health/Monash University) and Dr Sonia Grover (RCH). See organising committee and faculty details here.

This FREE virtual conference requires all delegates to register their details here. 

Please see full program including event times.

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