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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...
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Conference: "Unravelling the complexities of major curriculum changes" at AMEE
Jen and colleagues from the Netherlands and Australia delivered an Symposium on the subject of “Unravelling the complexities of major curriculum changes” at AMEE 2017, Helsinki, Finland. They used an online package to enable audience participation with an audience of several hundred people - and it worked extremely well!
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New Paper: Sending messages: How faculty influence professionalism teaching and learning
CHERI's Lorraine Hawick and Prof Cleland have a new publication out "Sending messages: How faculty influence professionalism teaching and learning" in Medical Teacher. The paper focuses on how hidden messages and contextual factors can enable or inhibit the translation of professionalism into curricula. Those involved in implementing professionalism must be reflective,...
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SMMSN Education Day a Success
A new annual event focusing on the education we deliver across SMMSN was launched on the 1st September at the Suttie Centre. The event will raise awareness of the excellent education delivered across CLSM school, allowing us all to share good practice and support our ongoing development as trainers. CHERI speakers included Prof Cleland ("Widening access to...