News about Education
By Chris Stephens
The first cohort of students on the ground-breaking European Bachelor of Medicine programme – the BM(EU) – has arrived to study in Southampton after a two day induction at the Kassel School of Medicine in central Germany, where they will be based from 2015. More than 180 applications were received for the first year of the programme and around 60 were shortlisted to attend a selection day in July. Of the 19 successful applicants, two already live in the UK and the rest are from across Germany. On graduation, BM(EU) students will receive provisional registration from the GMC and successful completion of a Foundation Year in Kassel will lead to full registration.
Anatomical sciences education is changing. Electronic learning resources are being developed to complement practical sessions, we believe we are the first medical school in the UK to bring in such innovations. It all started with new touch screen PCs, then £25,000 from the Student Centredness Fund was invested in new sound equipment, software, a suitable camera system, WiFi hubs and tablet devices. Electronic versions of the anatomy booklet for the Respiratory Cardio &
Renal (RCR 1) module in Semester 2 of BM 5 and Endocrinology & Life Cycle (ECL) in Semester 4 are now available with interactive diagrams, photomicrographs, and immediate feedback for students.
Resources are migrating from the Internal Medicine website, MEDIS, to the University’s Virtual Learning Environment. Students and teachers on the BM6 programme and on Year 1 of the BM5 and BM(EU), can now find all their programme and module information on Blackboard and their learning resources on a newly developed repository, MedShare. The two postgraduate programmes, MSc Allergy and MSc Public Health, will also be found on Blackboard. As well as individual module websites, students and staff will be able to access separate websites for each of the three themes – Communication, Diversity, and Teamworking, Leadership & Patient Safety – as well as for key subjects.
All other information and learning resources will be transferred across before MEDIS is decommissioned in September 2015. For more information or a place on a future training session, contact Lizzie Keel-Diffey on
medu@southampton.ac.uk
I am delighted to report that two Faculty teams were selected for this year’s Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Teaching. They were Tessa Davies, Lisa Porges and Kam Kaur-Bicchu for their personal and pastoral support of students in the early years of the curriculum; and Roxana Carare and Tracey Newman for developing the new MMedSc for intercalating BM students. Medical students also nominated four members of the Faculty in the Students’ Union Excellence in Teaching Awards. They were Kam Kaur-Bicchu, Scott Border, Tony Sampson and Mike Gilder. In a ceremony for clinical teachers, the Leatherdale Prize was awarded to Roy Sievers (Portsmouth), Ibrahim Bodagh (Southampton) and Nilesh Satguru (Bournemouth). Congratulations to everyone involved!
Well done to students and staff who organised the film premiere of Trauma – the Clinical Impact of Genocide in June, an innovative teaching and learning resource based on the real life experience of a University of Southampton student who survived genocide in his home country. To see a trailer from the film click here (
http://vimeo.com/globalfireproductions/review/66138010/f05c18a9ba
) and use the password genocidetrauma