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Teaching and Learning Contract

Learning Objectives:

Learning Resources and Strategies:

Evidence of Accomplishments of Objectives:

Criteria and Means for Validating Evidence:

Learn to distinguish between Multiple Myeloma and similar diseases.

Find articles that distinguish multiple myeloma from similar diseases.

 

Talk to patients at the doctor’s office that have a similar disease. 

Images on the systems of the different diseases.

 

Annotated bibliographies.

 

Audio-visual presentations.

This evidence will be validated by comparing these differences listed in several notable oncologists’ reports.

Learn recent treatment advances.

Find articles and journals in the library on the progression of MM treatment.

 

Talk to patients that are in remission.

Annotated bibliographies.

 

Recent journal articles.

 

Feedback from remission patients.

Compare the feedback with articles from research done.  Talk to doctors to see if their reports accurately substantiate this feedback.

Learn the benefits and risks of treatment options.

 

Find articles in the library on the benefits and risks of treatment options.

 

Examine my wife’s test results after every treatment visit.

Research projects.

 

Annotated bibliographies.

 

Test results.

Look at reports to see which patients from a particular treatment versus which ones did not. 

Learn which drugs are now available and which are still in development.

Find articles and journals in the library on drugs now available and in development.

 

Observe the medications that my wife is prescribed.

 

Talk to my wife’s Oncologist. 

Actual medication that is prescribed to me wife.

 

Annotated bibliographies.

 

Feedback from doctor.

Check the list of available drugs, as well as prescription log, for this kind of treatment.

Learn the types of transplantation and their indications.

Read articles on the Peripheral Blood Stem Cell transplant and the Bone Marrow transplant.

 

Talk to patients who had one or both of these transplants.

 

View a documentary on transplants.

Documentary tapes or film on the health channel.

 

Annotated bibliographies.

 

Feedback from patients.

Talk with patients that had these transplants done.  Read medical journals pertaining to transplants.  Read case reports on transplant procedures.