Spotlight on Scholars – Dr Brian Aine
February 19, 2021
This is one of our “Spotlight on Scholars” blog posts: introducing current members of our student body and discussing what attracted them to #MedEd and the Nottingham Course. What is your current role in medical education? I am currently a foundation year 1 doctor which means, interestingly, I am more on the ‘other side of …
Spotlight on Scholars – Dr Wendy Telling
January 18, 2021
This is the first of our “Spotlight on Scholars” blog posts: introducing current members of our student body and discussing what attracted them to #MedEd and the Nottingham Course. What is your current role in medical education? My current role is Medical Education Fellow at the University of Nottingham. This involves writing undergraduate curriculum …
Clinical Academic Career pathways: It’s in the journey…
January 3, 2021
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Our New Year’s Blog is written by Dr Helen Church, an Academic GP Trainee and Clinical Assistant Professor in Medical Education at University of Nottingham. As a medical student, I thought that a linear clinical career pathway, progressing steadily from one training programme to another to reach the dizzying heights of consultant …
CONGRATULATIONS Nottingham MedEd Scholars!
December 10, 2020
We’re proud to celebrate the Graduation of the Medical Education PGCert, PGDip and MMedSci Scholars this Friday 11th December 2020 at University of Nottingham. We’re especially proud of their achievements in this Covid-19 pandemic year: University students all over the word have had their studies disrupted. Losing a lot of the personal interaction with teachers …
Online teaching as an educational method
September 9, 2020
September’s N.A.M.E. blog is written by Dr Rakesh Patel – Medical Education Course Director at UoN. The purpose of this blog is to prompt you to reflect about some of your held beliefs and assumptions about medical or healthcare professions education. Now, more than ever, there is a real need as medical educators to step …
Through the looking glass: studying medical education as a medical student
August 5, 2020
By Harriet Virely As both a medical student at the University of Leicester and a scholar on the Masters in Medical Education course in Nottingham, my current educational status is somewhat interesting. Having spent four years happily partaking as one of many cogs within a well-established machine, I have now been allowed a year …
Studying on the front line
June 28, 2020
If you are interested in studying on the Medical Education course here at University of Nottingham: Click here for details on how to apply to start in September 2020. The Nottingham Academic Medical Education team held their interim Exam Board recently. Our Master’s degree in Medical Education has around 100 ‘students’ and, as we looked …
The machine starts: remembering pedagogy in the digital learning space
June 3, 2020
June’s N.A.M.E. blog is written by Dr Stevie Agius, Assistant Professor of Medical Education The swift move to online learning in March 2020 as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic came at a time when the MMedSci students embarking upon my ‘Curriculum design and educational environment’ module (predominantly full-time medical and health professionals) were contending …
Medical Education in the time of Covid-19
April 22, 2020
If you are interested in joining us on these modules, on the Medical Education course here at University of Nottingham: Click here for details on how to apply to start in September 2020. I don’t think any of us realised how relevant our Med Ed module “Learning in uncertain and complex environments” would become over …
Teaching and learning in the workplace
March 9, 2020
This week I have been preparing materials for one of our modules: ‘Learning in uncertain and complex environments’. One of the pre-module tasks is to watch this short BBC film set in the Royal Blackburn Hospital’s emergency department. The question we pose to our scholars is: ‘What are the challenges you may face as clinical …
