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Engaging the professional community in teaching medical students

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

You might think that the teaching content in a professional vocational degree like medicine – defined by the governing body the General Medical Council ( GMC ) and detailing what a medical student should know as they exit their undergraduate programme and embark on their first day as a junior doctor – would be almost entirely prescriptive.

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Boldly Future Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams is working on research focused on developing an all-natural, anti-viral disinfectant that has shown promising results in controlling the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Williams is also involved in curriculum development and recently received a $600,000 grant focused on food allergies research in education. He says N.C.

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Experiential learning and distance learning students

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Image credit: Pixabay, CC0 In this blog post, three SACHA alumni (Foster Osei, Mtevee Amugune, and Nisha Daniel), who participated in the SACHA programme as online distance learners, discuss the impact of experiential learning on the distance learner experience and share lessons that can be translated to other areas of the curriculum.

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Data Science, Technology and Innovation: A collaborative online learning programme

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Credit: Ali Kremen Yücel Collaboration is also key amongst the students and, as the cohort continues to grow, the network for the students will also develop into what we hope to be a strong professional alumni network. Bayes Centre.

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Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs): Learning and teaching beyond disciplinary silos

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

His main teaching interest is in experiential learning at the research-teaching nexus, which he is currently exploring in a secondment to the Institute for Academic Development.

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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Next steps For more ideas on curriculum design, see these Teaching Matters articles: Developing Reflection in the Curriculum History for the future: Update on the new pre-honours curriculum in History Diversifying the medical curriculum using open educational resources Fair’s Fair: embedding equality and diversity into the curriculum Sabrina Valeria (..)