ABOUT THE EVENT Whether you are a beginner, superuser, or prospective Canvas user, you’re invited to join us for our third Nebraska Canvas Conference! We’re planning to pack the agenda with awesome sessions from educators, trailblazers, and experts in both Higher Education and K12. There will be a separate track for beginners in the morning, and two tracks for Higher Ed and K12 running throughout the day. This day will be crammed full of ed-tech goodness and Canvas awesomeness!! When: …
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Spotlight on Scholarship is an event designed to showcase and celebrate educational innovations. While sponsored by the UNMC Interprofessional Academy of Educators, the educational showcase invites both UNMC and UNO medical humanities educators to apply and present their educational research. More than 30 faculty-innovator-educators from UNMC and UNO took part in the first annual Spotlight on Scholarship showcase. The forum included four platform and 13 poster presentations. Read the UNMC Today story Effectiveness of Blended Learning for Resident …
Danish Bhatti: So I think we started doing this coffee to chat about things. I don’t know. I don’t even know why but we started doing it in a flick and we were talking about. I think we realized that there are many topics that interest us both which are way beyond medicine topics about success how to solve the problems of life why people make mistakes why people make choices that do philosophy, mythology, psychology history. John Bertoni: Right. …
https://danishbhatti.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/First-case_wobbly-graduate-Episode-8.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | AndroidDanish Bhatti: Hi John. It’s a pleasure to have you here again to talk about some of your interesting cases and you know I learned a lot talking to you every week about these cases and I hope other people can also share my enthusiasm for these cases. John Bertoni: Well thank you. I find that I’ve learned the most from the patients I say if you listen if you …
Writing better MCQs and fight against the ‘test takers’: We have always come across students (and peers) who have amazing test scores and we wonder what is unique about them. We also come across questions in tests we take where we make a ‘guess’ but why we pick one option over the other when we really don’t know the answer. Why we ‘feel’ one options seems to be truer than others. There is actually reason for that and Test Wise-ness …
https://danishbhatti.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/MD-Podcast_QA-with-MD-Team.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | AndroidToday we’re doing an innovative podcast where we will blend in a lecture on Tourette’s syndrome along with a podcast with a question submitted to me from the course participant in movement disorder online course from Pakistan. Danish Bhatti: So I will go through the slides as I mentioned before and whenever the questions come up I will ask the audience presence the questions. Let me introduce who is present …
The Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs created seven Impact in Education Awards to recognize the dedication and ingenuity of our educators. Award categories include innovation, leadership, mentorship, service, interprofessional, and research. Recipients receive award funds, recognition at the annual award ceremony, and their name displayed on a plaque in the Academic Affairs office. Award funds are to be used for professional development within two years after being awarded. The ceremony is facilitated by the Interprofessional Academy …
Danish Bhatti, M.D., is one of the recipients of an Office of Academic Affairs 2018-19 Impact in Education Award. He will receive the Innovative Practices in Education Award. Name:Danish Bhatti, M.D. Title: Assistant professor, UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences; director of International Neurology Program; co-director of Comprehensive Parkinson’s Disease Clinic; associate program director, Movement Disorders Fellowship Joined UNMC: 2009 (as resident) and stayed on as faculty after fellowship. Hometown: Islamabad, Pakistan Innovative Practices in Education Award This award recognizes an …
ABSTRACT Introduction: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is increasing in prevalence due to a growing elderly population. Although there is no cure, there are exercise therapies and medications for mild to moderate disease. For more advanced disease, infusion or surgical interventions including deep brain stimulation surgery, levodopa carbidopa intestinal gel, and subcutaneous apomorphine infusion are considered. As these interventions become increasingly available, it is imperative for a neurologist involved in the care of advanced PD to be aware of the indications and …
