Medical Education welcomes medical students who wish to pursue their BMedSc/MMedSc research project with us. We offer Year 3 projects in a range of fields (though not all fields are available in each academic year):
Please note, staff change, grants are awarded and research interests evolve over time, so the topics in which research projects are being offered within Medical Education are subject to change also. However, we are always happy to discuss students own ideas for a study. Please get in touch with us and collectively we will try to accommodate your ideas.
If you would like to see a sample of past projects, please get in touch.
Undergraduate medical students at Southampton regularly take part in ASME and undertaking a research project is not the only way to get involved. For example, students regularly feed into the design and evaluation of programmes and course components. Moreover, students also regularly contribute to staff development events. If you aren’t ready to commit to a project, but would like to get involved, please get in touch with Martina Johnson.
Students are supported on their projects through close supervision by Medical Education staff members. We also organise events specifically for students, where everybody gets a chance to present and discuss their work in progress, raise issues around research methods and research ethics. These sessions also enable students to seek and receive advice and feedback from members of staff (other than their own supervisor) and to practise their presentation skills ahead of the conference.
We are also keen to support students who wish to present their work at national and international conferences and/or to publish their work in relevant journals. Some examples include:
2015-2016. Harleen Johal ‘Ethical Decision-Making around Serious Self-Harm by Professionals in a Forensic Adolescent Mental Health Unit’ (supervisors: Kathy Kendall and Angela Fenwick)
Harleen presented a poster titled ‘Ethical Decision-Making around Serious Self-Harm by Professionals in a Forensic Adolescent Mental Health Unit', at the Institute for Medical Ethics at the Institute for Medical Ethics 11th Annual Spring Conference in London, February 2017.
2015-16. Jonathan White, ‘Why are there so few working-class applicants to medical schools? Learning from the success stories’ (supervisor: Sally Curtis)
An annual prize of £150 is awarded for the best student research project conducted and supervised within Medical Education.
In recent years, the Jan Schmedlin prize was awarded to the following students:
The prize is named in memory of Janis Schmedlin, a much loved and valued colleague who worked in the medical school for many years and contributed hugely to the high quality of undergraduate education.
What impact do intercalated degrees have? Objectives:
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Do the marks awarded during the admissions process for medical school predict the students' performance? Objectives:
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An exploration of students' experiences of simulated patients within medical education - the BM5 Programme at Southampton Medical School. Objectives:
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Does a high mark from admission selection procedure (UCAS and UKCAT) predict good performance at medical school? Objectives:
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Investigation into Student Attitudes on Admission at Southampton Objectives:
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A Questionnaire assessing the views, thoughts and feelings of both F1 doctors and nurse practitioners in respect to the competency of F1 doctors in the first two weeks of their clinical attachments. Student: R Critchley, Supervisors: Mr. Baxter, Mr. Wijersinghe Objectives:
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Do BM6 Students Perceptions of Self, Influence Their Integration into the BM5 Student Cohort and Also Their Future Career Aspirations? Objectives:
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NHS Managerial Issues and Practices: How much should medical students know? Objectives:
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Selectors View on Selection Procedures and Policy for The School of Medicine Southampton University Objectives:
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