Newsletter 01.12
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UK Council for Communication Skills Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education - forming a community of practice
Over the last 10 years, effective communication skills teaching and assessment programmes have been established in all undergraduate medical schools in the UK. Yet despite ...
Authors: Dr Jonathan Silverman;
The launch of Intute: Health and Life Sciences
In July 2006, BIOME, one of the hubs of the RDN [1], was relaunched as Intute: Health and Life Sciences. Many of you will have ...
Authors: Ms Lisa Charnock; Ms Jackie Wickham;
Measuring educational and training environments as part of QA
The learning and teaching environments in which education and training occurs in the health professions has come in to focus in the UK with both ...
Authors: Dr Sue Roff;
Medical ethics, seminars and the virtual environment
Pressure on the medical curriculum creates a challenge for introducing new courses and supplementing existing ones.This provides a particular challenge for medical ethics which ...
Authors: Dr Georgia Testa;
Higher Education Academy student essay prize 2006: How does your course compare with any expectations you may have had?
The Higher Education Academy coordinated a national Student Essay Prize, based on competitions that many Subject Centres had been running independently.There was a single ...
Unlocking virtual patients
Although healthcare education encompasses knowledge acquisition, it is its effective application in a context of practice that is its goal. Designed learning activities in healthcare ...
Authors: Dr Rachel Ellaway; Dr JB McGee;
RCVS introduces new modular postgraduate certificate for 2007
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) is replacing its current certificate with a new modular postgraduate certificate and is asking universities (not just veterinary ...
Authors: Ms Freda Andrews; Ms Elizabeth Barter;
Staff development initiatives at the School of Medicine, University of Southampton
The School of Medicine at the University of Southampton was pleased to be placed in the top three places in the Times Good University Guide ...
Authors: Dr Faith Hill;
Viperlib:A web-based library of images in visual perception
Can you remember what life was like before PowerPoint? In the space of a few years, all types of presentations - lectures, seminars and conference talks ...
Authors: Dr Peter Thompson; Mr Rob Stone; Ms Elaine Pollard;
Medicine and surgery without blood transfusion study guide: Facilitating patient autonomy with a new standard of care
The study guide is designed to help professional practitioners handle cases where bloodless medicine or surgery is sought by a patient for religious or other ...
Authors: Dr Shekar Bheenuck; Dr Lynn Denning; Mr David Smith;
Patient safety in health care profession educational curricula: Examining the learning experience
Patient safety is one of the new buzz-words of practice - but little is known about how people learn to practice safely. A collaboration of five ...
Authors: Dr Pauline Pearson; Dr Alison Steven;
Workshop report: Case-led learning in veterinary education, preclinical years
Dr Phil Bradley, Sub-Dean from Newcastle Medical School, led a lively and enjoyable workshop on case-led learning at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies ...
Authors: Ms Gillian McConnell;
The IVIMEDS approach to virtual patients
The International Virtual Medical School (IVIMEDS) is an international collaboration of leading medical schools. It offers a blended solution in which eLearning is combined with ...
Authors: Dr David A Davies; Dr Stephen R Smith; Prof. Ronald Harden;
Conference report: Learning, teaching and assessing medical ethics
In a keynote address, Sir Kenneth Calman, Vice-Chancellor of Durham University and President of the Institute of Medical Ethics, observed that medical ethics education needed ...
Authors: Prof. Kenneth M Boyd;
Understanding Medical Education
Understanding Medical Education is a series of extended papers designed to meet the needs of all newcomers to medical education whether undergraduate or postgraduate, including ...
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