Building accessibility, critical thinking skills and competencies in pathology from both a creator and user perspective, supplemental material for Open Pathology text

Project Title	Building accessibility, critical thinking skills and competencies in pathology from both a creator and user perspective, supplemental material for Open Pathology text
Principal Investigator	Gang Wang
Co-Applicants	Jennifer Kong, Affiliate Faculty, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
Faculty	Medicine
Funding Year	2023
Project Summary	We will be adding valuable additional features to the existing Open education resource Pathology: From the Tissue Level to Clinical Manifestations. These additional features will develop higher-level cognitive skills (Bloom taxonomy of application, analysis, evaluation), which leads to critical thinking and clinical reasoning: both are competencies in almost every healthcare field. We will invite student co-creators to develop the highest cognitive skill (synthesis) in creating new chapters on blood tests & musculoskeletal disorders: setting the groundwork for a future course where Open pedagogy in pathology can be practiced. Another supplemental feature will also address challenges students face when learning histology (microscopic analysis of cells and tissue) – particularly the skill of visual decoding – intentionally using accessibility tools and illustrations to help with visual decoding. We will add EDI voices with a patient case study which demonstrates the challenges over discrimination, vulnerabilities, and underrepresentation when interacting with health care. Finally, we will build new relationships with faculties outside of Medicine for peer expert review of Open Patho and broader adoption. This project will be evaluated quantitatively via user surveys and qualitatively by student focus groups and peer expert reviews by instructors.
Grant type	OER Implementation
Funded Amount	$25,000