Engage and Empower Me: Myths and Truths of Designing for Patient Behavior
A NEW COURSE ON PATIENT ENGAGEMENT DESIGN. WINTER QUARTER 2014. ANES 205
Course description: What happens when the $3 trillion U.S. healthcare industry suddenly hinges on patient engagement? Hear the unforgettable patient stories and real-life experiences of successful patient engagement from the industry leaders in healthcare, wellness, and behavior sciences. Understand the neuroscience behind why doctors can’t simply scare patients and employers can’t simply bribe employees into healthy behaviors. Discover how including patients in the design process can empower them to work with their healthcare team to improve care. Learn where health educators, designers, techies, and investors got it wrong and what they can do to improve their success. This colloquium offers rapid-fire panels of guest speakers, real patients and Stanford faculty.
Course Directors: Larry Chu, MD, and Kyra Bobinet, MD
ANES 204: Medical Education in the New Millennium
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR INNOVATION AND DIGITAL DISRUPTION
Course description: Today’s Millennial medical learners are often disappointed by legacy instructional design that fails to address their unique learning preferences. The volume of new medical knowledge is outpacing our ability to organize and retain it. How might educators disrupt outdated practices through thoughtful use of technology and learning design? How might MOOCs, social media, simulation and virtual reality change the face of medical education? How might we make learning continuous, engaging, and scalable in the age of increasing clinical demands and limited work hours? This interdisciplinary course features thought leaders and innovators from medical education, instructional design, and learning technologies.
Course Directors: Larry Chu, MD, Kyle Harrison, MD and Nikita Joshi, MD
ANES 206: Design for Health
APPLY DESIGN THINKING TO IMPROVE HEALTHCARE. SPRING QUARTER 2014. ANES 206
Course description: This colloquium course will broadly explore the crucial role design can play in optimizing healthcare. We will explore principles of design-thinking and patient-centered design, and examine their impact on innovating solutions to healthcare problems. We’ll hear patients speak about their challenges and learn about their real-world solutions and insights into the nature of health and illness. From designing hospitals and communities to shape individual behavior, to learning about designing for service innovations, mobile apps or emerging health technologies, we’ll have design experts share their knowledge and design stories in order to understand how healthcare providers might better design for health.
Course Directors: Larry Chu, MD, Kyle Harrison, MD and Nikita Joshi, MD