Health committee Actually, this is an interesting question, because I actually did my MD degree in Belgium, and I did my specialty in France, so I can clearly compare Europe to here. I'm Iranian in origin, so I've been to Iran. I have seen what's happening. The medical education in North Americ
February 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Dr. Alireza Jalali
Health committee Two things come to mind right away. Right now—you may know this, you may not—the stethoscopes that all the doctors have around their necks, these are already out. Nobody uses stethoscopes that much any more. Most doctors still use them. Why? Because ultrasound machines are so por
February 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Dr. Alireza Jalali
Health committee That's a very good point. With the self-learning modules, you need to mostly put basic stuff in, stuff that isn't very confusing and that they can get on their own. Then you bring them back—in my case, in the lab, or it may be at the patient's bedside or something—and then, when
February 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Dr. Alireza Jalali
Health committee I teach anatomy, and in my classroom we had lectures and labs. As you know, with all the active learning that is around, more active learning is promoted, and with the accreditation that the AFMC was talking about.... We eliminated all the lectures in anatomy and we replaced them
February 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Dr. Alireza Jalali
Health committee For the podcasts?
February 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Dr. Alireza Jalali
Health committee All of them are independent. My site is hosted by Yahoo. I do all of it myself. I have a server that I put the podcasts on, and it just generates an RSS feed that goes out. And as I said, for the videos it's YouTube, because it's free.
February 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Dr. Alireza Jalali
Health committee For 10 years.
February 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Dr. Alireza Jalali
Health committee It links very much to the AFMC changes and the CanMEDS role, the competencies that are out there. Before that—and I'm not talking about just the last 10 years; I will get to that—we had doctors who were experts. They knew everything about medicine, but there wasn't much emphasis
February 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Dr. Alireza Jalali
Health committee Madam Chair and honourable members, thank you for having me here. I am Ali Jalali. I am a professor of anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. I also do a lot of research on innovative methods in teaching. I'm going to start by talking a bit about the inn
February 5th, 2013Committee meeting
Dr. Alireza Jalali