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A student partnership project to enhance curriculum development in medical education

Teaching Matters Online Learning

We identified space in the year 1 curriculum that would allow for a formal teaching and learning opportunity on physical activity for health. We recruited six medical students via an announcement on Learn. Those interested submitted a one page note of interest and, from this, we selected six students representing each of the years.

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Student engagement and sense of mattering in a large UG course

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Credit: Pixabay In this insightful post, Dr. Celine Caquineau, a Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh Medical School, tackles the formidable challenge of enhancing student engagement within large undergraduate courses. Students often feel anonymous, and getting to know their peers and their teachers is also almost impossible.

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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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Welcome to March-April Learning & Teaching Enhancement theme: Celebrating Best Practices

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

The first blog in the series by Jane Hislop and Simone Dimartino introduces LEGO SERIOUS PLAY (LSP), a dynamic, hands-on teaching approach incorporated into Edinburgh Medical Schools Summer School in Clinical Education.

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Students as partners in education: Experiences from the Undergraduate Certificate in Veterinary Medical Education

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

An RCVS Diplomate in Equine Internal Medicine, Neil teaches throughout the BVM&S Programme, and introduced and leads the Undergraduate Certificate in Veterinary Medical Education at the Vet School. His research interests include veterinary education, students as teachers, admissions and equine gastroenterology and welfare.

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GenZ+GenAI: A whole new world and not a brand new world

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Acknowledgement:Jinging Wang Jingjing Wang is a final year medical student at the University of Edinburgh with an intercalated degree in BMedSci (Hons) Surgical Sciences with elective in Inflammation and Tissue Repair. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with a keen interest in both teaching and art.