In this newsletter:
- Upcoming events in the social calendar
- Well done to Year 5 students
- Important student survey details
- Monkey business!
- Celebrating Student Excellence in Medicine
- New Year 2 Coordinator
- Conferences, events and opportunities
Social events
On Friday 18th, the Final Year Graduation Ball is being held at the Passenger Shed. More than the average number of staff are attending. Admission is definitely not free!
Two nights later at the Bierkeller – the clinical review – is the opportunity to wryly smile at the way in which those same staff have their mannerisms and oddities mocked mercilessly. They love it! I wonder which member of staff will star in this year’s performance.
Well done Year 5 students
You are almost at the end. The picture of the future is getting slightly less hazy. All students have heard of their allocation to a Deanery for F1 year and this year, only one student has not yet been allocated. Normally this is 10-15 at least – so we are very pleased for you all – performance at the SJT was obviously outstanding. The vast majority have passed the PSA and those who haven’t are resitting in the near future. Fingers crossed!!
Student Surveys
There are two of these ongoing which might explain why your inboxes seem a little full. One of these is for all students in years 1 – 4 – the YourBristolSurvey (YBS) and the other is specifically for students in their final year of the course – that is the National Student Survey (NSS).
The surveys remain open as follows:
YourBristolSurvey – 11th March
National Student Survey – 30th April
Please complete what is relevant to you to avoid Prof Cahill being flayed alive by his bosses.
Monkey Business!
So who hasn’t heard the story about how the zoo phoned the hospital on February 12th looking for a doctor and all they could find was a professor, who cycled up to the zoo, ran in and delivered the gorilla (not quite the true story). Here they are together – he is wearing the purple fleece!
Student Achievements
Student Excellence in Medicine – a Celebration!
On Friday 26 February we held another brilliant event to celebrate the success of our students and to inspire others to even greater heights! This year the Student Excellence in Medicine event was held in the Reception Room in Wills Memorial Building with our poster presentations in the prestigious Great Hall. Students from all five years came together, as well as intercalators, to listen to presentations from those who had been shortlisted for a number of prize awards. We had three candidates for the Aungshuk Ghosh Prize for Innovative use of eLearning in Medical Education, together with Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4 eSSC students showcasing their work from 2014/15. We also had 28 contributors for the poster competition, who chatted with everyone about their work over tea. Professor Sarah Purdy gave a keynote speech on ‘Excellence, excitement and enthusiasm – a career in medicine’. Thanks also go to our eSSC External Examiner, Professor Sir Ian Gilmore who awarded the prizes. We had a bit of a party afterwards too with some very posh nibbles. One student was surprised to find her aunt and uncle in the audience! If you’d like to see the photos, go to https://www.ole.bris.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/xid-6483506_4
Louise Geller demonstrating her eLearning video
eSSC winners receiving their prize from Professor Sir Ian Gilmore Camilla Toscano-Underwood Alice Huffman Abigail Shaw
So, well done to everyone who got involved and congratulations to our prize winners:
Aungshuk Ghosh Prize for Innovative use of eLearning in Medical Education
- 1st prize Claire Scrivener – A digital approach to teaching the digital rectal exam
- Runners-up: Will Fotherby – Get exercise confident website and : Louise Geller – A video to demonstrate the clinical examination of the vestibular system
Professor Gareth Williams Prize – Year 2 eSSC
- 1st prize: Camilla Toscano-Underwood – Life under extreme conditions
- Runner-up: Taniya Biswas – Recent developments in our understanding of the sexual differentiation of the brain
Aungshuk Ghosh Prize – Year 3 eSSC
- 1st prize: Alice Huffman – ‘Spot the poo germs’: creating handwashing materials for future hope in Kolkata
- Runner-up: Darcy Hall – Retrospective audit comparing BSR standards with DETECT criteria for PAH-screening in Systemic Sclerosis patients at a DGH
Professor Sir Ian Gilmore Prize – Year 4 eSSC
- 1st prize: Abigail Shaw – Donor-type aplasia occurring late after bone marrow transplantation for paediatric severe aplastic anaemia
- Runner-up: Mary Fenton-Jones – Children at altitude: high risk or highly manageable?
Poster competition
- 1st prize: Joseph Salem – How long do patients with chronic disease expect to live?
- 2nd prize: Laura Markham – Screening for delayed cerebral ischaemia in aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: an international survey
- 3rd prize: Akshay Kumar – Can stroke therapies be used to prevent congenital craniofacial abnormalities?
Joseph Salem with his winning poster
Staff News
MB21 Curriculum Update
The development of the MB21 curriculum is making good progress and is well on track for the launch of year 1 in September 2017. The current phase of work includes:
- The development of Intended Learning Outcomes by multidisciplinary, Year Development Working Groups that include University and NHS staff. These groups are taking account of recommendations published by the Royal Colleges, learned societies and the GMC.
- The creation of a robust mechanism to assure that our Helical Themes strategy is weaved throughout the curriculum.
- The establishment of working groups to consider and report on issues relating to staff training and development, assessment of and for learning, governance of the programme, student choice and technology enhanced learning.
We are very grateful to the large number of colleagues that have contributed to this substantial body of work. It has attracted excellent feedback from our external reviewers and very positive feedback from consultations with our students.
This term we have been visiting our Schools and Academies to update them on progress and receive their feedback as part of our communication strategy and the University has approved the business case for the MB21 curriculum. Our first cohort of students can find more details in the University’s online prospectus at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/2017/medicine/mb-medicine/
We will shortly be appointing a Curriculum Translator to work with panels of case experts to write cases and collate supporting materials for the first year of the Case Based Learning method of delivery that will be central to the MB21 curriculum. Students will be provided with more detailed information and asked for feedback through the regular student focus groups chaired by John Henderson and Eugene Lloyd. In addition, student reps have been invited to the curriculum showcase at Wills Hall Conference Centre in Stoke Bishop on 26th April.
New Year 2 Coordinator!
We are delighted to welcome Jakki Walsh to the team. Jakki is originally from Ireland but has spent the last 3 years working in Christchurch, New Zealand before relocating to Bristol in October. She is looking forward to meeting and working with everyone…
Get involved…
Conferences, Events and Opportunities
Launch of the Centre for Health Sciences Education
A date for your diary – Thursday 24 March. Come along and find out about the new Centre for Health Sciences Education. Book your place at: http://bit.do/chse
The Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Education in Bristol
Seminar 2-5pm Thursday 7th April
Ground Floor Seminar Rooms, Life Sciences Building. Tyndall Avenue, BS8 1TQ
Are you already using the Arts-related approaches in your medical undergraduate teaching? Are you curious about how the Arts could enhance your teaching?
This 3 hour seminar is open to everyone interested in the role of the Arts and Humanities in medical education in Bristol. The Arts are already a small but significant feature of what we do. Our hope is that this theme can evolve in the new curriculum which will roll out from October 2017. This seminar is designed to catalyse that process with the following outcomes in mind:
- Show-casing current best-practice in MedEd from Bristol and Beyond
- Connecting and engaging A&H practitioners across the south-west
- Raising the profile of A&H in within the medical education community in Bristol
- Picking up specific ideas for curriculum content related to teaching cases, short courses and effective consulting.
This is a seminar of two halves. In the first we’ll hear from UoB, NHS and Third Sector colleagues already active in the field. There will be a short, live “Forum Theatre” element with the Kokopelli Theatre Co – related to effective consulting. We will hear from a dermatologist using Art observation to build diagnostic skills, a philosopher of medicine and teams helping students engage with creative work. We will also welcome Suzy Willson from Performing Medicine, which is the company that works with Barts and the London and GKT to deliver arts-based training – particularly in communication.
The second half of the afternoon will look at how we can apply the arts and humanities in three areas. Firstly to the design of learning materials for clinical cases, secondly to the “effective consulting” course, and finally to our SSC programme (short optional courses). We are designing this section to make sure that everyone can contribute.
This seminar is suitable for anyone connected to medical education – especially those teaching students (GPs and hospital clinicians) – no current expertise is required. The meeting will be attended by Eugene Lloyd, one of the programme directors for the new programme. Arts and humanities academics and practitioners can also learn more about the medical curriculum and new opportunities there.
If you would like to come to this symposium please let Tricia (tricia.thorpe@bristol.ac.uk) know as soon as possible (numbers limited). We will send out a delegate pack – hopefully before Easter.
Academic development days for undergraduate students
The Centre for English Language and Foundation Studies (CELFS) runs academic development days for undergraduate students, both home and international. A range of topics are covered, eg giving presentations, poster presentations, reflective writing and learning. Registration for sessions in Teaching Block 2 are now open; do have a look and sign up for a session.
Reminder – Free Software!
Did you know that staff and students can get free software from the University e.g. Office 365?
See: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/software/
Finally
Do you have something to share? Send to susan.pettinger-moores@bristol.ac.uk