Medicine for students as and when required!

Today saw the culmination of 4 months of hard work by about 10 of our 2nd year medical students with the launch of a new website DundeePRN Medicine for students as and when required.  I blogged back in September about blogging doctors and how a colleague in respiratory medicine had set up DundeeChest to support [...]

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Should Powerpoint handouts be uploaded to the VLE before or after lectures?

My PG Cert in Teaching in Higher Education kicked off last week with a workshop and one of the group activities involved us all delivering a short 5 minute micro teaching slot.  We had been forewarned about this so most of us had prepared a few Powerpoint slides to support our slots.  After we’d done [...]

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Preparing medical students for electives in resource poor countires

Many medical students will be getting ready to go off on their medical electives this summer.  Whilst some will be going off to exotic places there are others who choose to go to resource poor countries.   At Dundee we have links with Malawi and some of our students go there for their electives.  The key [...]

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Audio feedback and student digital competencies

It’s been a while since I’ve posted to my blog.  This is partly due to doing an online staff development course which took up quite a bit of time over a 7 week period and spending more time on Twitter.  There have been things that I’ve almost written about on my blog, but I’ve just [...]

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