MEDEV

School of Medical Sciences Education Development

Introduction

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 shone through as deserved winners. So good were they that we stretched our overall miniproject budget from £60,000 to £65,000. Below is a list of those projects awarded an LTSN-01 miniproject grant in 2003.

Medical

• Why do some medical students fail exams? Dr Alistair Chesser, University of Aberdeen
• Consulting through an Interpreter, Dr Cathy Jackson, University of Dundee
• An exploration of the effect of reflection on undergraduate medical students' learning, Dr Andrew Grant, University of Wales College of Medicine
• Assessment of medical students' attitudes towards professional behaviour, Dr Vikram Jha, University of Leeds
• Coordinating research activity on Interprofessional Learning involving the Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS), Dr Karen Mattick, Peninsula Medical School
• Communicating with deaf patients. A postal survey of awareness of communication issues. Dr William Murdoch, University of Birmingham
• An investigation into the learning styles of the University of Southampton Medical School entrants and outcomes of their first year Primary BM exams, Miss Vikki Haley, University of Southampton
• Development of computer based prepared for practice therapeutics EMQ test, Dr Paul Julian, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London
• Use of Life Drawing in Undergraduate Clinical Attachments, Dr Sarah Gull, University of Cambridge
• Developing mental health user input into medical student learning, Penny Morris, University of Leeds

Dental

• Dental students interacting with dental nurses: an investigation of gender differences in communication and working styles, Professor Ruth Freeman, Queen's University, Belfast
• An educational package for trainers in dental outreach placements, Dr Peter G Robinson, University of Sheffield
• A Virtual Learning Environment for Orthodontics, Professor Jonathan Sandy, University of Bristol
• Evaluation and Dissemination of a Progress File Learning System at Barts and the London Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, Dr Elizabeth Davenport, Barts and The London Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry
• Chairside teaching and learning: stakeholders' perspectives, Mr Jeffrey Wilson, University of Wales College of Medicine

Veterinary

• A Bovine Rectal Palpation Simulator for training veterinary undergraduate students, Dr Dominic Mellor, University of Glasgow
• Does the formal teaching of communication skills improve the ability of veterinary students to communicate with clients in clinical situations?, Mrs Christine Latham, University of Cambridge
• Objects for OSCEs (Generating Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) from existing CLIVE courseware to support Day One Competencies), Ms Vicki Dale, University of Glasgow