MEDEV

School of Medical Sciences Education Development

There can be no doubt that higher education is working in a period of rapid and complex change. This is no more evident than in ...

Medical schools have failed to match quality assessment to learning outcomes, according to a recent subject overview. This FDTL4 project seeks to establish a core ...

This article outlines the objectives and progress of the Partners in Practice project to incorporate disabilty equality within clinical practice, which held a major workshop ...

Creating the health and social care leaders of the future is a key challenge for the medical education profession. This project sets out to develop ...

LTSN-01 has commissioned the writing of extended summaries of a selection of the Association of Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) Guides series. These comprehensive guides ...

We had a fantastic response to our call for miniproject applications this year. We received 83 applications, many of an exceptionally high standard, but 18 ...

Recent legislation and a high profile legal case have brought into focus the medical profession's struggles with the issue of disability. A miniproject funded ...

The consultation is at the heart of good clinical practice. Experiential learning using simulated patients has become an integral part of the medical curriculum for ...

Growing awareness of consumer rights has led to dental patients wanting to know more about the choices of treatment open to them. With LTSN-01 support ...

Baby squid, mitochondria, human cells, Streptococcus pyogenes, DNA sequence gels - these are just a few of the images available free of charge with rights cleared ...

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is a strategic advisory body that provides the infrastructure for learning, teaching and research, offers leadership and guidance in ...

During the last three years, the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) has successfully penetrated each and every discipline, reached thousands of departments, and has ...

A Special report: A pilot systematic review and meta-analysis on the effectiveness of problem based learning, discusses the development and piloting of one such systematic ...

  The ETHICS project brings together six subject centres, serving at least 56 seperate disciplines. The project will produce a body of inter-disciplinary ethics teaching and ...

As an arts and humanities graduate who has spent nearly 15 years working as an academic in science, medicine and dentistry, this project is dear ...

LTSN-01 workshops are free and open to anyone involved in learning and teaching in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine and cover a wide range of ...

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons has statutory duties under the 1966 Veterinary Surgeons Act to regulate undergraduate veterinary education, professional conduct, and to maintain ...

  To celebrate and disseminate the conclusion of the EU Educational Social Fund Project "Distance Learning for Healthcare in Small to Medium Size Enterprises" a Summer ...

For this edition of the newsletter the focus of sharing good practice is on special study modules. Tomorrow's Doctors recommended that the curriculum must ...

Medics in Primary Schools is a Special Study Module offered to second year medical students at Queen's University Belfast. The students taking this module ...

Special Study opportunities are now an established part of virtually all Undergraduate medical curricula in the UK following the recommendations of Tomorrow's Doctors (General ...

The DEVIL project is investigating practical ways to provide dynamic library resources from within a range of virtual learning environments, particularly important within devolved LTSN-01 ...