Welcome to the Dundee University Medical Education Blog. This is new venture to share some of what is happening in Medical Education at Dundee Medical School. This website is currently under development. Dundee Medical School is ranked 1st in Scotland and 4th in the UK for Medicine: Guardian University League Table 2018 Medical graduates … Continue reading
Games in medical education is not a new concept, but surely General Practice is too complex to put into a board game? How will young adult medical students take to playing games during their small group tutorials facilitated by experienced GPs? To find the answers, have a look at the … Continue reading
The potential of Team-based Learning (TBL) to UK medical education has been discussed in an article published in Medical Teacher (Khogali, 2013). We have several years of experience in using TBL in the undergraduate medical curriculum at the University of Dundee. TBL is a structured, active, collaborative learning approach, which involves … Continue reading
In collaboration with NHS Highland and NHS Dumfries and Galloway a longitudinal clerkship has been developed by the University of Dundee. The clerkship runs in the students’ 4th year of studies. The aim of the clerkship are to: Increase recruitment of doctors in rural areas. Match education of medical students … Continue reading
The Public Health Educators in Medical Schools (PHEMS) group have just had a publication accepted by Medical Education, entitled “Public health matters: innovative approaches for engaging medical students”. Included in this work is a case study from Dundee University Medical School, where students critically appraise a drug advert and related … Continue reading
How can we teach complex scientific principles to medical students? Richard Oparka, consultant pathologist, has tried many methods to achieve this. Some of these involve close collaboration with a range of expertise within Duncan of Jordanstone College for Art and Design (DJCAD). Current projects include utilising animation as a tool alongside traditional lectures. … Continue reading
Sending medical students to primary schools sound fun but what did everyone gain from it? Did it make a difference?” Fiona Muir, Kevin McConville and Lois Robertson look into this in this study. Click on link below to read more Medical Students Child Health Experience Continue reading
Inherited cardiac conditions are genetic conditions that affect young people and can lead to sudden cardiac death, and include the heart muscle disorders (the cardiomyopathies ) or cardiac rhythm disorders (the channelopathies). Families affected by these conditions can present to a variety of healthcare professions and therefore understanding the clinical … Continue reading
Collaborators – Rola Ajjawi, Karen Barton, Charlotte Rees This article explores dental education research priorities in Scotland considering the perspectives of multiple stakeholder groups. The study used a mixed methods, two-stage online questionnaire design. Here is a link to the article: http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/3/e013129 Continue reading
Developed as a partnership between the University of Dundee and the Dundee Education Department, every single year 2 medical student delivers health education activities to primary school aged children in Dundee. Fiona and Kevin document their experience, in their journal article “Doctor: what’s inside my body?” published in Clinical Teacher. … Continue reading
Susan Law and Fiona Muir proudly accepted their ASME/GMC excellent medical award (undergraduate category) on 8th July 2016 in Belfast. This was recognition for their work on a one year immersive community base medical clerkship, based in rural Scotland. Their abstract is below. Continue reading