EWMA Podcast: Wound education on the move – goals and challenges in the last 30 years
In this episode you can listen to a conversation between EWMA podcast host Samantha Holloway and two prominent figures in the field of wound management education; Professor Sebastian Probst and Professor Madeleine Flanagan. The major question addressed in this episode is what challenges and goals wound education has faced in the past 30 years? While wound management education has developed significantly standardization across different national contexts differ quite considerably. One driver of the developments within wound education discussed in this episode is the educational support provided by various EWMA initiatives - for example the EWMA curricula. Listen in as Professor Probst and Professor Madeleine discuss how they have experienced challenges in wound education from both a Swizz, British and a more general European context.
By listening to this episode, you will learn about:
- Goals and challenges of wound education the last 30 years
- Reflections on the shift from experience to evidence based wound management teaching.
- The university-conference model as a dynamic adult learning method
- Bringing students to the EWMA conference foster interdisciplinary learning and network across university institutions, industry and scientific communities.
- Efforts to standardize wound management education across European contexts and globally.
- In that regard the role EWMA's post-registration qualification curricula for nurses and physicians is discussed.
- The effects of digitalization in wound management education.
- The role of critical appraisal skills in wound management education.
- The importance of inter- and multidisciplinary in wound education.
Podcast host:
Samantha Holloway, Reader and Programme Director in the Centre for Medical Education, School of Medicine based at the College of Life and Biomedical Sciences at Cardiff University in the UK
Podcast guest:
Sebastian Probst, Professor School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Geneva, Switzerland
Podcast guest:
Madeleine Flanagan, Programme director, programme director of the MSc Skin Integrity & Wound Management and the MSc in Clinical Dermatology, University of Hertfordshire.
Interested in more information on wound education and EWMA education initiatives?
EWMA Education
Education has always been central to EWMA. At EWMA's education site, you can find relevant resources if you wish to learn more about wound managent or are yourself engaged in wound management education.
EWMA curricula
Read more about EWMA's efforts to standardise education of physicians and nurses involved in wound management and download the curricula.
EWMA on-demand webinars
EWMA publish all our live webianars as on-demand videos on our website. On the rights is ashort video that introduces a EWMA Document (Published in 2020) and the webinar series (2021) on Surgical Site Infections.
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Teacher network
Do you teach wound care and management? Do you desire more support in your teaching? Maybe EWMA's teacher network is of interest to you.
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