Dean's Awards for Innovation in Teaching - Launched 2015

Winners of the Dean's Awards 2022-23 - 24,850 Euro awarded

The spirit of this award is to encourage teaching innovations within the Faculty of Health Sciences, where the outcomes will be shared with colleagues across the Faculty and beyond.

The Faculty of Health Sciences strives to embed the principles of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all that we do. In a clear demonstration of our commitment to this, evidence that EDI is embedded throughout the innovations was introduced as a criterion for the award in 2022-23. Full details of the call can be found here (opens as a PDF).

Please see full details of these winning projects in the Awards Brochure (opens as PDF).

	Dr Denis Barry, Assistant Professor, Discipline of Anatomy, School of Medicine Project Team: Daniel Johnston, Eric Downer, Danielle Byrne, Mary O’Neill, Claire Murphy. The goal of this proposal is to develop an e-learning platform to retain the extraordinary educational value of our annually donated human brains and promote their clinical value through radiological integration.
	Dr Annemarie Bennett, Assistant Professor in Dietetics, Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine This innovation will aim to reduce bias in the assessment of students and increase the suitability of practice education learning environments. Innovative aspects include using the student voice through sharing their stories of challenging learning environments to add authenticity to scripts.
	Dr Eric Downer, Associate Professor, Discipline of Physiology, School of Medicine Project Team: Paula Murphy, Denis Barry, Michelle Leech, Mary O’Neill, Jean Fletcher Animation Teaching Tools in Medical Education (AtMED) This project will develop a suite of advanced animations to enhance student learning of systems-based embryology (development of cardiovascular/respiratory systems).
	Dr Michelle Leech, Associate Professor, Discipline of Radiation Therapy, School of Medicine The aim of the Chat-Right project is to equip radiation therapy students with the skills to work alongside Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems upon graduation. In this proposal, the AI chatbot will become another peer with which the student can discuss, debate and enhance their critical thinking skills.
	Clare Whelan, Clinical Skills Tutor, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine Project Team: Clare Whelan, Triona Flavin, Erika Keane, Olive Killoury, Helena O Neill, Jennifer Conlan This project seeks to increase representation of the diverse population found within Irish Healthcare in simulated teaching sessions, and to ensure learners can identify with some of the patients/providers represented in the clinical skills teaching resources.