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IUPESM 2025 ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA
The Local Organizing Committee is hard at work and already well on the way to delivering an amazing experience in Adelaide in 2025, See https://wc2025.org/
NEW CURRICULA
The ACPSEM has had a busy 2022/2023 already with the introduction of new curricula for all its medical physics and radiopharmaceutical science courses.
Reach out us if you want to look more closely at the Frameworks as part of something you are doing. The key has been investing time in the development of desired program outcomes and matching Learning Outcomes to these.
MOBILE AND MICRO LEARNING
ACPSEM has also increased its use of a mobile app called Forget Me Not, for the delivery of multiple-choice questions to course participants. This combines the concepts of micro learning and spaced learning along with the principle of encouraging mastery of a subject. Participants can choose to get a question a day or all questions in a series (10-14) all at once. If you get the question wrong you are sent it again until you get it right, and if you get it wrong you are given the reference to read. Certificates are issued by the app when series of questions are complete. Licence fees are charged per person per course. Also reports show where individuals learning gaps are and what areas groups of learners find more easy or difficult to grasp. Because the design is based on “mastery” you can also observe learners or groups of learners who take longer to grasp concepts and focus assistance accordingly. Licensing is per learner per course.
THE AUSTRALIAN MR SAFETY EXPERT COURSE (MRSE)
ACPSEM’s second ever MR Safety Expert (MRSE) Course begins in September 2023 and will run until September 2024. Course Director Donald McRobbie and our General Manager Education Andrew Campbell have refined the 2021 course based on feedback and trends in best practice online education. This course combines the idea of a flipped classroom – participants watching high quality videos over a period of weeks before going online in a webinar to discuss and ask questions – with other live webinars, and assessments ranging from MCQs to practical tasks. Successful completion leads to certification as and MRSE. This course was developed as an alternative to the American exam based expert course.
Once again, the focus on creating clear learning outcomes has helped us deliver this great course. Interested in more information that may help you out, just reach out to education@acpsem.org.au