MEDEV

School of Medical Sciences Education Development

Introduction

This one day conference, was organised by the Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine, and funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). It was held at The Assembly Rooms, Newcastle upon Tyne on 28 February 2008 and attracted 150 delegates from across the UK to be part of a packed day including 4 keynote speeches, 21 presentations over 4 streams of activities and 18 posters.

Congratulations to the winners of the favourite presentation and favourite poster prizes as voted for on the day.

The winning presentation was AM1(c) Johanna McMullan, Queen’s University Belfast, Interactive personal response, an innovative approach to teaching and learning.

The winning poster was PO17 Viktoria Sargent, Tom Holland, Gareth Frith, University of Leeds, Using mobile technologies to create ePortfolios and personalised learning environments for 16 health and social care professions.

The papers from both are included in Special Report 10 Conference Proceedings: ePortfolios identity and personalised learning in healthcare education which is now available both to order as paper copy (200 pages) or to download (1.9MB) as PDF. Please email enquiries@medev.ac.uk to order paper copies at no charge, or download from: www.medev.ac.uk/dinky?dinky_id=835

Keynotes and parallel session presentations from the conference are all available from: www.medev.ac.uk/workshop_resources/105/list_contents