Collaborative; Produced by or involving two or more parties working together. Example, collaborative research. Collaboration and being an interdisciplinary worker are key components of success in many areas. For academics, collaboration builds research consensus and combining different areas of specialism looks impressive to potential funding bodies. For students, collaboration, or, ‘team work’, is an essential … Continue reading “A collaborative community of students and academics (Rachel Kahn)”
Month: April 2017
Ensuring prescribing competency in medical graduates using SCRIPT (Vera Kubenz, SCRIPT team)
One of the key challenges facing medical education is ensuring that medical graduates are equipped with the knowledge, skills and confidence to prescribe safely and accurately. Studies by the GMC have indicated that new doctors are often poorly prepared for prescribing and that First and Second Year Foundation Doctors prescribe with error rates of 8% … Continue reading “Ensuring prescribing competency in medical graduates using SCRIPT (Vera Kubenz, SCRIPT team)”
Higher Education, 2026 (Jagdish Singh Sohal)
Jag’s post can be viewed in full here. Source: Education, 2026… [brain dump]
Bioscience students value campus based formats, including lectures and lecturers who also research, but they expect interactive and engaging teaching making use of the latest technology
The School of Biosciences Student Staff Committee had a short breakout session to join in with the Big Conversation. There were 14 students from all four undergraduate years in Biosciences. This is what our student reps said: In 10 years time We will still have face-to-face lectures We will still learn from active researchers and … Continue reading “Bioscience students value campus based formats, including lectures and lecturers who also research, but they expect interactive and engaging teaching making use of the latest technology”