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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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2025 CAPD FAQs for Family & Supporters

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students can pursue any internships as long as they also engage in the more important experiences to medical schools like clinical experiences (e.g. shadowing, research or paid-employment in a clinical setting), volunteer experiences, and leadership experiences. Do you see many engineering undergraduates who also pursue Premed?

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The group project SLICC in medicine: “In this course, you can do anything you want to…”

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

CC0 [pixabay] When this is the first thing you say to a class of 200+ medical students, it raises a few eyebrows! The SSC2b is a small window of opportunity in Semester 2 of second year, which is designed to enable our students to do something beyond mainstream medicine, or indeed undertake something very different.

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Life Design: Connecting students to their future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Image credit: Clark Tibbs, unsplash, CC0 Dr Sharon Maguire, a Careers & Employability Manager at The University of Edinburgh , proposes the “creative, iterative, human-centered, problem-solving methodology” of Life Design as an answer to urgent questions of student employability, curriculum transformation, and the future of work.

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Steps to success: Connecting careers to student support

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Image credit: Pixabay, pexels, CC0 In this post, Susan Bird, the Link Careers Consultant for the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Edinburgh, explores a recent opportunity to strengthen ties between the Careers Service and evolving student support systems. ” Inc. 29 June 2001. Oct 27, 2022

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

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Gavin McCabe Dr Gavin McCabe leads the University’s Employability Consultancy. 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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CAPD Info session at MIT’s CPW for Family & Supporters 2024

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students can pursue any internships as long as they are able to get clinical shadowing experiences at some point before they apply for medical schools. Almost half of our premed students are engineering majors. Pre-Law Advising Is there tailored advising for students interested in pursuing a JD/law degree?

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