The BSc in Medical Education
Welcome to the BSc in Medical Education.
Doctors should have an understanding of educational principles and teaching skills (General Medical Council, 2003, Modernising Medical Careers, 2004). In line with this, our intercalated BSc aims to prepare today’s medical graduates to become tomorrow’s educators – to become not only skilled and reflective teachers, but also those who will become deeply involved with medical schools, their courses and their curricula. We aim to encourage our students to become the clinical academics of the future.
The programme is composed of five taught blocks which balance the need for both academic theory and its application to the development of effective teaching skills:
- Fundamentals of Education
- Theory behind Teaching and Learning
- Research Methods
- Teaching Methods and Teaching Skills
- Assessment and Evaluation
Please see the full programme outline [new window] for more information.
Students benefit from diverse and innovative education methods, including wikis, concept-mapping, debates, writing responses to journal articles, interviewing teachers and students, sessions on the history of medical education, academic writing workshops and project clinics.
Throughout the course students maintain a learning and teaching portfolio which we hope they will take forward into their professional lives. The programme ends with the completion of a research project. Students on the 2007/8 course did exceptionally well in having their research accepted for presentation. They gave three oral presentations and six posters at the Association for Medical Education in Europe in Prague in the summer of 2008. These presentations are now being written up for publication.
Students from the BSc Medical Education course 2008/9