Accepted Type
Facilitated and Dedicated Poster
Code
LP8 - 06
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
no
Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Oral
Sub Type
Education Innovation
Will the presenter be a:
Graduate Student
Affiliation
Considered for Poster
yes
Title
Using the Curriculum Densitometer to measure the impact of curricular workload on students' mental health: A pilot study.
Length of Presentation
Background/Purpose
Curriculum overload (CO) is a major 21st-century health science education problem, partly due to ongoing curriculum reforms including the growing wealth of knowledge, increasing diversity of the student body, and expanding interdisciplinary programming. Existing evidence indicates that CO has adverse effects on student mental health, but little research exists on practical solutions to address this problem. Our study seeks to assess the feasibility of a new mobile application (Curriculum Densitometer - CD app.) for measuring curriculum load and student stress.
Summary of the Innovation
A new mobile-web application, called Curriculum Densitometer (from now on referred to as CD app.) was developed specifically to measure course assignment course activity workload and student perceived stress. The CD app. was conceptualized by Dr. Kalyani Premkumar, designed by Jeremiah Acharibasam, and developed by Thai Lee (MSc. student) under Dr. Ralph Deters' supervision. The goal was to use the CD app. to measure course assignment workload (i.e. time - in hours - spent completing an assignment) and perceived stress associated with the workload among students in various courses within the Colleges of Nursing and Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. The CD app allows instructors to create assignment task time trackers which students of a given class can then use to measure the time it takes them to complete those assignment tasks and rate the related perceived stress involved in completing these assignment tasks.
Conclusion
The data generated by the CD app. can keep instructors informed of student stress experience and help to promote student mental health.
Keyword 1
curriculum planning
Keyword 2
student perceived stress
Keyword 3
digital health
Level of Training
Post Graduate
Abstract Themes
Curriculum
Curriculum
General
Additional Theme (First choice)
Faculty Development
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Postgraduate
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Physician & Medical Student Health and Well-being
Authors
Presenter
Jeremiah Acharibasam
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Term 5
Yes
