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Building bridges: Connecting minds in the global mental health community

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Through interactive mapping, idea generation, and logistical discussions, steering committee workshops identified the key benefits students and alumni sought from the project. It was collaboratively agreed that the online resource needed to be accessible to both current students and graduates. Where are we now?

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Using simulation flexibly to provide experiential learning at scale

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Continuing to innovate and expand simulation whilst being faced with increasing student numbers has proved difficult. Quality & Safety in Healthcare , 13 Suppl 1, i2-10. People are complex and respond in unpredictable ways, sometimes there are pitfalls but occasionally unexpected gains. References Gaba, D. Apr 24, 2025

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Our Health: Interdisciplinary, community-based research projects

Teaching Matters Student Employment

My engagement practice provided me with many opportunities to observe researchers from different disciplines working together as a cohesive team to research some of the most urgent medical challenges of our time. What health research agendas would they set if they could?

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2025 CAPD FAQs for Family & Supporters

CAPD

The MIT Alumni Association has a database of alumni contact information that students can access, as well as the Alumni Advisors Hub , which provides students the opportunity to gain one-on-one advising support from alumni on career-related topics. 252 , the CAPD Clinical Research Externship , and the MIT Physician Shadowing Program.

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Balancing books and bills: an exploration of the hidden world of student workers

SRHE

Moreover, meaningful work experience or employment can be seen as critical for a number of professions – a mechanism to distinguish between graduates with the same 2:1 degree but with differing employability capital. To what extent is student employment detrimental? Her research is in the area of inequality and education.

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The NHS and Performance Psychology: A partnership that presents an enriched learning opportunity

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Through the MSc Performance Psychology programme at the University of Edinburgh, I, along with my dissertation supervisor (Dr Amanda Martindale), was able to partner with the NHS to investigate this idea further, specifically with scrub nurse practitioners serving on organ retrieval teams for my dissertation research.

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Engaging the professional community in teaching medical students

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

The Edinburgh Medical School uses Student Selected Components ( SSCs ) as part of the medicine timetable to deliver a range of learning outcomes which mainly relate to developing research skills, and professional development including teamwork and teaching skills. Apr 4, 2016

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