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Conference Invitation: Ben to talk in Melbourne
CHERI PhD student Ben Kumwenda has been invited to speak at the 2nd International Selection in the Health Professions conference, in Melbourne, Australia, April 2018. He will present two papers taken from his PhD project: "Selecting applicants to UK postgraduate medical training programmes: a national cohort study" and "Are efforts to attract graduate...
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Big Week at CHERI for Jen!
The week of 27th November was a busy one for Jen. She spoke at DEMEC on the Monday (see earlier), gave an AMEE webinar on Wednesday (on her work exploring the hidden gains from a surgical bookcamp), finished that and walked across campus to speak on medical careers decision making...
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Successful Second DEMEC Meeting on Widening Access
The second DEMEC meeting was held in Manchester, 27-28th November 2017. Jen contributed to a session run by the Medical Schools Council (MSC) Selection Alliance on widening access to medicine.
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Graduation Celebrations
Ambreen Shankil graduated with a Masters in Research (Medical Education).
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New Paper: Tensions between training and service in General Surgery
Prof Jen Cleland, director of CHERI, and Dr Ruby Roberts, CHERI Post-doctoral Researcher, have had their paper "Using paradox theory to understand responses to tensions between service and training in general surgery” accepted for publication in Medical Education. The paper focused on examining the tensions between service and training in pressured health...
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New Paper: The relationship between school type and academic performance at medical school
CHERI PhD student Ben Kumwenda has had a recent paper published - "The relationship between school type and academic performance at medical school: a national, multi-cohort study" - in BMJ Open. The paper examines the relationship between prior attainment, (high) school type and performance throughout medical school. Given the insights...
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New Paper: Which factors predict success in the mandatory UK postgraduate surgical exam
Duncan Scrimgeour’s most recent paper has just been published in The Surgeon. “Which factors predict success in the mandatory UK postgraduate surgical exam: The Intercollegiate Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS)?" This Study not only helps to identify trainees at significant risk of failing the MRCS, but also provides additional information...
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Conference: Faculty of Surgical Trainers Annual Conference
Jen was an invited speaker at the Faculty of Surgical Trainers (FST) annual conference, Birmingham 4th October 2017. She said “as a non-surgeon it was daunting to speak to a room of surgeons about surgical training, but my talk dovetailed well with those of the other speakers and was very...
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New Student: Rachel Ball joins CHERI
Rachel Ball joined CHERI as part of her intercalating year. Rachel’s research focuses on analysing qualitative interviews carried out with students from non-traditional background who gained a place at one of the Scottish Medical Schools. Kirsty Alexander is doing a fabulous job of supervising Rachel.
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MSc in Clinical Education programme a Success
MSc in Clinical Education programme is now in full swing. Within this programme we have 8 students undertaking the Diploma in Clinical Education from academic and clinical backgrounds. We are delighted to see that our PG Cert course has significantly grown in popularity and we have 24 students undertaking the...