Newsletter 01.17
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Game-based learning for the delivery of virtual patients in Second Life
Medical education faces difficult challenges in the 21st century. Increasing pressure upon doctors to deliver service targets, the European Working Time Directive and changes in ...
Authors: Ms Maria Toro-Troconis; Prof. Martyn Partridge; Dr Michael Barrett; Ms Ulf Mellstrom;
Intellectual property issues – coming to an institution near you!
The increasing use of the Internet for learning and teaching brings into question the traditional approaches for the protection of digital content created with the ...
Authors: Ms Angela Miller; Ms Chara Balasubramaniam; Mr Terry Poulton;
Climate change, sustainability and health
The world’s population is facing, perhaps, an unprecedented challenge to its very existence with public health implications becoming clear. As the heating happens,1 ...
Authors: Mr Benny Goodman;
CETL update: Resources for teaching ethics in your discipline
At the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied CETL,we believe that in order to teach ethics effectively, it is best for it to be properly integrated into ...
Authors: Ms Kathryn Dalby;
Team learning in dentistry – a report of a pilot scheme to enhance the learning experience of clinical and technical skills teaching for student dentists and student dental technicians
Apart from a requirement to attain more and more academic knowledge, during their training, student dentists and student dental technologists also need to acquire a ...
Authors: Mr Nick Grey; Mr Iain Mackie; Mr Christopher Maryan; Mr Alan Jack; Mr Ray Richmond;
Integrating Intute services into your website or VLE
Web 2.0 technologies are changing the way people use the internet, both to create and access information.The ability to integrate and repurpose information ...
Authors: Miss Jackie Wickham;
The WikiVet community of practice
Wikis are one of the major applications under the umbrella of ‘web 2.0’ technologies which allow collaborative authoring, editing and sharing of information.‘WikiVet ...
Authors: Mr Tim Scase; Ms Gillian Brown; Mr Brian Cox; Mr Nick Short; Prof. Ken Smith; Ms Kim Whittlestone; Prof. Richard Hammond; Prof. Susan Rhind;
What makes a good lecturer?
Over the past four years of my medical degree I have experienced the whole gamut of lecture theatre emotions. The contented sigh-‘oh it all ...
Authors: Miss Anna Stienen-Durand;
End of life decision making
The Jennifer Jackson prize is awarded to the best medical ethics report by a third year medical student at the University of Leeds. Outstanding papers ...
Authors: Mr Richard Sutcliffe;
Conference report: The MedBiquitous annual conference 2008: Transforming healthcare education, Baltimore, Maryland,USA
MedBiquitous is the only organisation dedicated to technology standards in healthcare education. Over two hundred twenty registrants from North America and Europe participated in the ...
Authors: Ms Valerie Smothers; Dr Rachel Ellaway;
Workshop report: Developing a common vision, the development and delivery of the student selected components (SSCs) of the medical undergraduate curriculum
This workshop was held in November 2007 in the Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) for Developing Professionalism in Medical Students at the ...
Authors: Ms John Ellershaw; Dr John Smith; Prof. Deborah Murdoch-Eaton; Ms Patsy Stark;
Research teaching linkages in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine: A symposium report
Research-teaching linkages: enhancing graduate attributes is the 2008 enhancement theme from the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA).The three professional disciplines of medicine, dentistry and veterinary ...
Authors: Dr Anita Laidlaw;
Towards POLY professionalism?
Even before ‘poly clinics’ entered the debate in 2008, a new model of what we might call ‘POLY professionalism’ has been developing in UK health ...
Authors: Ms Sue Roff;
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