MEDEV

School of Medical Sciences Education Development

Pushing the Boat Out is an introductory study of admissions to UK medical, dental & veterinary schools for applicants with disabilities. It was made possible with ...

This article outlines the OnLine assessment and Feedback (OLAAF) Project (FDTL4), which is now in its first phase. It includes details of how to join ...

UCeL was founded in March 2002 as a multi-institutional collective to collaboratively produce high quality interactive multimedia resources for health-professional education. Its six founding partners ...

Mental Health in Higher Education (MHHE-ltsn) is a collaborative project between the four ltsn subject centres whose subject communities are most closely involved in mental ...

Triple needs your help By filling in a short questionnaire available from the website, you can let the project know about your interest in and ...

This conference was held on 12-13 February in Manchester. The two day conference was jointly hosted by the Learning and Teaching Suppor tNetwork subject centre ...

The Medical Education Taxonomy/Thesaurus Research Organisation (METRO) was formed to investigate the creation of a set of interoperable terms to describe medical education content ...

 Teaching and learning of biologicalsubjects, in common with otherscience-ased subjects, requires anunderstanding of complexrelationships between a ide ange ofconcepts. In veterinary medicinelearners need to understand ...

Using funding from the LTSN-01 subject centre staff from the Royal Veterinary College visited skills labs in medical schools. This article considers their potential for ...

I was delighted; I hadn’t been aware of the voting process. On the other hand, only a few of us are involved with all ...

Good communication skills are an important aspect of working in medicine, where doctors may carry out a quarter of a million consultations during a career ...

The BioMed Image Archive, http://www.brisbio.ac.uk/, in conjunction with ltsn-01, recently orgasnised a meeting at the British Medical Association, London, to discuss ...

There is significant evidence to support the fact that simulated patients and role play have been in widespread use in communication teaching, learning, assessment andr ...

There has been an explosion of software for the anatomical sciences within the past five years. It is now not uncommon to find CD-ROMs inside ...

Assessment is particularly important in a subject like veterinary medicine, but is often neglected when new courses or educational methods are introduced. The time is ...

A main aim of LTSN-01 is to disseminate examples of educational approaches used within the community. We hope this 'sharing of good practice' will stimulate ...

A meeting report from the veterinary teaching and education theme session at the Association of Veterinary Teachers and Research Workers 57th annual conference, Scarborough, April ...