Newsletter 01.21
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Patients are all smiles
Patients at the new School of Dentistry centred at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) are overwhelmingly enthusiastic about the care they have received from ...
Authors: Ms Alison Gudgeon;
An event to help trainees achieve teaching competencies
Teaching has long been a central activity of the practicing doctor. It was recognised by Hippocrates and is contained in the Hippocratic Oath. To consider ...
Authors: Dr Sheila Calder; Dr Daniel Bennett;
Feedback - what do veterinary students really think?
Constructive feedback is now widely accepted to be an essential part of the learning process in higher education. Following repeated poor ratings of feedback across ...
Authors: Dr Velda McCune; Prof. Susan Rhind; Ms Kirsty Smith;
Using wikis to promote the personal and professional development of undergraduate medical students
We undertook a study to introduce wikis in a problem-based learning (PBL) context and explore how web2.0 technology may be used to enhance medical ...
Authors: Dr Peter Dangerfield; Ms Tunde Varga-Atkins; Dr David Brigden; Mr Nick Bunyan; Dr Steve McKinnell; Mr Martin Ralph; Dr David Williams;
Turning Point interactive teaching
Many methods can be used to engage students when teaching in a large lecture theatre, but it is difficult to ensure that the whole audience ...
Authors: Dr Samuel Webster;
Dundee polyprofessionalism inventories for academic integrity and protoclinical learning
Over the past eighteen months we have been developing inventories to measure student and staff reactions to various aspects of professionalism in the early stages ...
Authors: Ms Sue Roff; Ms Madawa Chandratilake; Mr Sean McAleer; Mr Kabir Dherwan; Mr John Gibson;
PHORUS: opening up education in public health
The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) is an independent, multi-disciplinary organisation, dedicated to the promotion and protection of collective human health and wellbeing. Through ...
Authors: Dr Marion Helme;
Organising Open Educational Resources - OOER MEDEV!
A sister project to PHORUS, the OOER project explores policies, challenges, and solutions to making teaching materials Open Educational Resources (OER), based on the experience ...
Authors: Ms Suzanne Hardy;
King's Anglo-Italian colloquium goes global
The positive aspects of international dental education are exemplified by the ongoing strong relationship between a UK and an Italian Dental School. During a recent ...
Authors: Prof. Patricia Reynolds; Mr George Bell;
Miniproject report: Enhancing deaf awareness and communication skills of medical students: development of online resources
When I go to the supermarket I can tell when the employees have had deaf awareness training. The person will look at you, will wait ...
Authors: Dr Kieran McGlade; Dr Jayne Woodside; Ms Clare Thomson;
Out Of Our Heads website launch
Out Of Our Heads, a creative arts website (www.outofourheads.net), was launched in Bristol in November 2009 – a significant step in a process to ...
Authors: Dr Jane Williams; Ms Miranda Whinney; Ms Suzanne Hardy;
Event report: NHS-HE Forum, November 2009
The NHS-HE Forum1 was set up in 2001 for IT and networking managers from both the NHS and UK HE, to achieve two-way communication between ...
Use of clinical recordings in non-clinical (e.g. educational) settings: next steps
Clinical pictures, videos and other recordings are vital to good teaching and learning within the health-care professions. Increasingly these originate outside the institution that wishes ...
Authors: Dr Jane Williams; Dr Neil Jacobs;
Conference report: VETNET LLN - shaping the future
The 3rd Annual VETNET Lifelong Learning (LLN) national conference, hosted at the Ambassadors Hotel, Bloomsbury, London, welcomed over 70 delegates representing 50 institutions from all ...
Authors: Mr Chris Smith;
Conference report: Playing with learning 2: making connections, Scarman House Conference Centre, The University of Warwick
The ‘Playing with learning’ concept began as part of the Higher Education Academy’s HE in FE Enhancement Programme, and over the last few years ...
Authors: Ms Gillian Brown;
MSc in veterinary education – new at the Royal Veterinary College, London
A new programme in veterinary education leading to an MSc is currently being developed at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). The programme is designed for ...
Authors: Ms Lucy Jackson;
Workshop programme
Workshops are open to anyone involved in learning and teaching in undergraduate medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine.They attract CPD points and there is currently ...
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