Susan Hawken and Fiona Moir

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Team-based Learning and Delivery of Brief Advice for Smoking Cessation and Increasing Physical Activity for New Zealanders

Join an interactive team to convert the Smoking Cessation Guidelines into a coherent message of brief advice for all.   Apply similar standards for increasing physical activity.  This session will utilise Team-based Learning Concepts as an instructional strategy that will enhance quality of learning.  Learners will shift from passive learning to active learning.  Brief Intervention skills will be reviewed and practiced.

Goals of session: 
• Develop teaching/learning strategies to enhance knowledge and skills for those working in general practice and primary health care
• Develop application of brief interventions around two of the major Primary Health Care Objectives:  decrease smoking and increase physical activity.

This session is suitable for all those working in primary care.  It combines learning strategies with application of knowledge and performance.

Biography: Susan Hawken is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland teaching medical students communication and professional skills. Her clinical background includes general practice and sexual and reproductive health medicine. As the current Phase 2 Director of the medical programme, she has academic responsibility for years four and five of this programme, and for medical students’ progress. Her research interests include student assessment, the clinical learning environment, and the teaching and learning of communication and professional skills cross-culturally.

Biography: Fiona trained in the UK at Sheffield University, and went on to work as a GP in Britain and New Zealand. She now works in The Department of General Practice at The University of Auckland, where she specializes in Primary Mental Health and Communication Skills, teaching both post-graduate and undergraduate students. She is also the Programme Director for The Goodfellow Symposium, as well as a partner in Connect Communications - a  business teaching communication skills to health professionals.
In 2008, she was one of the co-authors of the CALM website, a resource for stress management and happiness, which was originally made available to students and then later released to the public.
Her interests are: the health of health professionals; early interventions for stress, anxiety and depression; health behaviour change and self-care.  She is currently completing her Masters thesis on the mental health of medical students.