Many of today's learning environments are dominated by technology or procedure-driven approaches that leave learners feeling alone and disconnected. The authors of Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals argue that educational processes in the health disciplines should model, integrate, and celebrate human connections because it is these connections that will foster the development of competent and caring health professionals. Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals equips educators working in clinical, classroom, and online settings with a variety of teaching strategies that facilitate essential human connections. Included is an overview of the educational theory that grounds the authors' thinking, enabling the educators who employ the strategies included in the book to assess their fit within curriculum requirements and personal teaching philosophies and understand how and why they work.

Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions is an indispensable guide for educators in the health professions. Interspersed with creative strategies and notes from the field by clinical teachers who offer practical suggestions, this volume equips healthcare educators with sound pedagogical theory. The authors focus on the importance of personal philosophies, resilience, and professional socialization while evaluating the current practices in clinical learning environments from technology to assessment and evaluation. This book provides instructors with the tools to influence both student success and the quality of care provided by future practitioners.

"Teaching Health Professionals Online: Frameworks and
Strategies" is a must-read for professionals in the health care
field who strive to deliver excellence in their online classes.
Intended for a wide range of professionals, including nurses, social
workers, occupational and radiation therapists, chiropractors,
dietitians, and dental hygienists, this compendium of teaching
strategies will inspire both new and experienced instructors in the
health professions. In addition to outlining creative, challenging
activities with step-by-step directions and explanations of why they
work, each chapter in the text situates practice within the context of
contemporary educational theories such as instructional immediacy,
invitational theory, constructivism, connectivism, transformative
learning, and quantum learning theory. Melrose, Park, and Perry also
address other issues familiar to those who have taught online courses.
How can a distance instructor build teacher-student relationships? How
does one transform the assumptions often held by students in the health
fields from the confines of the virtual classroom? Most importantly,
how can the instructor support his or her students in their future
pursuits of knowledge and their development as competent professionals?
By considering these and other concerns, this handbook aims to help
instructors increase student success and satisfaction, which, the
authors hope, will ultimately produce the best possible patient care.

Sherri Melrose, Caroline Park, and
Beth Perry teach in the Faculty of Health Disciplines
at Athabasca University. Melrose has published widely on educating
health professionals and is a winner of the Canadian Association of
Schools of Nursing Award for Excellence in Nursing Education. Park
developed her first online nursing course for the University of
Manitoba in 1997 and has subsequently developed and taught many courses
for Athabasca University. Perry is currently principal investigator of
a SSHRC-funded study that explores how artistic pedagogical
technologies influence interaction, social presence, and community in
the online post-secondary classroom.