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Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Awards Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 VC Teaching Awards from the Faculty of Medicine: Dr Christopher Torrens: recognising Chris’s wide ranging commitments to education in the Faculty over many years and in particular his huge achievements in leading and delivering physiology teaching. Dr Susan Wilson: recognising Susan’s commitment to leading the undergraduate projects in the Faculty for many years and in particular the tremendous achievement of delivering double the normal number of undergraduate projects in one year due to the changing BM curriculum. Very well done! Faith Hill Chair of the Award Panel New BM leadership Director of Programmes I am delighted to take on the role of Director of Undergraduate (BM) Programmes with oversight of the quality of all the BM Programmes, in addition to retaining my role as BM4 Programme Leader. There is much work to be done to continue delivering excellent education whilst implementing and evaluating our new BM curricula within an ever changing and challenging environment. We have a really strong BM leadership team (with several new members) with a wide range of experiences and skills, all of whom are really committed to providing an excellent student learning experience. I am thrilled to have such a great team to be working with. We also have a well-established culture of working with our students really closely to help guide our decision making and I think that it is crucial that we continue this into the future. Shelley Parr Year 3 Leads SUSU Academic Awards The Student Union’s Academic Awards celebrate and reward the work of teaching staff and student Academic Representatives across the university. The Excellence in Teaching Awards are voted for by students, to recognise lecturers and teaching staff who have made a real impact on their academic experience. This year, the winners from the Faculty of Medicine were: Best PG/UG Demonstrator or Teaching Assistant - Will Parton (Highly commended Michael Ahn) (see page 6) Most Engaging Lecturer - Carlos Hoyos (Highly commended - Judith Holloway) Best Academic Support - Shelley Parr (Highly commended - Sally Curtis) Best Pastoral Support - Sally Curtis (Highly commended - Catherine Hill) The Course Rep Awards celebrate the hard work of the student Academic Reps over the year and the positive impact they have had on student experience. The Faculty of Medicine winners were Alexander Kyriakou-Haniche and Fiona Vincent. We are both delighted to join the team as the Year 3 Leads at this important time, with the new clinical curriculum and students doing clinical placements in Germany for the first time. The new curriculum provides some exciting, novel components to the BM Programmes. In particular, the SCRIPT modules offer an excellent opportunity for students to increase their confidence in prescribing knowledge and skills - an important part of their future role as a junior doctor. The Primary Care and Long Term Conditions module and the new BM(IT) introductory module have been very well received, as has the earlier introduction of Orthopaedics to the curriculum. The challenge for the next couple of years is to embed the new curriculum and iron out any unexpected glitches as, and if, they arise. We intend to do this by building on links already made with students to ensure their feedback is listened to. We have already had some “You said, we did” actions. Next year, we plan to have a session at the beginning of September to introduce the year ahead, including clinical placements and “How to apply for the MMedSc”. We want our students to graduate ready to transition easily into their role as a junior doctor and, with this in mind, the student representatives organised a very good session with Dr Masding from Health Education Wessex to talk about Foundation jobs. In addition, Dr June Abay, the Year 5 Lead, is keen to introduce preparation for the Situational Judgment Test from Year 3. Year 3 is the foundation for clinical work - please feel free to contact us with your thoughts and suggestions. Serena Cottrell and Julie Waine Pieces of the jigsaw come together 2 <strong>Facilitator</strong> | Summer 2016
Year 4 introduces students to a range of clinical settings The new Year 4 It is my privilege to lead the exciting new Year 4 of the Southampton undergraduate medical curriculum. We have a great team of committed teachers and administrators, and a huge amount of work has been going on for a long time behind the scenes to develop the new clinical modules in local and regional hospitals and in Kassel. The students starting Year 4 in September 2016 will feel that they are very much on the journey towards passing Finals and becoming doctors as they work their way through each clinical module. During the year they will achieve GMC competencies and Assessments of Clinical Competence (ACCs), directly contributing to Finals assessments, and will continue working through SCRIPT modules to consolidate the learning of therapeutics and prescribing relevant to each clinical module. Clinical Ethics and Law will run throughout the year and Science into Practice will be an opportunity to revise and integrate the science underpinning all the new clinical experience of the year before the endof-year written examinations. Resources and information on each module will be available on Blackboard before the start of the year. On 10th June 2016, there was an introduction morning to Year 4, when detailed information was presented on each module and the year as a whole. Helen Lotery Year 4 in Germany I joined the MEDU team in November as Deputy Lead for the BM(EU) programme. My background is in General Practice and GP education locally, having worked as a GP Tutor for Wessex Deanery and latterly as a GP Programme Director. I have also been a GP trainer and taught students (mainly Year 4) in Primary Care. My other credential for the post, however, is that I lived in Germany for two years a while ago and am assembling an appropriate vocabulary of medical and educational words as I was a young mum at the time and so phrases for child rearing come more easily to me! I am so grateful for the very warm welcome I have received from the teams in Southampton and Kassel as I find my way around the processes and challenges of the role. My first task has been to coordinate plans for Year 4 in Kassel with the team there and Year Lead, Helen Lotery. It is an extra stretch for the module leaders across specialities in the new Year 4 to take into account the needs of those in Germany and I am grateful for all your support in making this happen. I am delighted that so many clinical staff at Klinikum Kassel have been keenly developing their knowledge and understanding of Southampton teaching methods and assessments both online and via staff development courses. They are determined to give the students an excellent experience and I have no doubt they will deliver on that. Sandy Miles Clinical Ethics and Law The new Clinical Ethics and Law (CEL) module takes place across Year 4 and is integrated into clinical modules. The approach to integration varies: some teaching and learning will be embedded in clinical module tutorials (as in Psychiatry), and some will be focussed around set teaching sessions; students will also be expected to undertake independent learning to achieve the learning outcomes. In addition, throughout the year, there will be four periods where students can sign up to online group tutorials (2-3 students), for a four week session, to work on cases/ethical issues and to get feedback on written work. This is an optional formative assessment activity and is based on the successful online tutorials that the CEL team have run for many years in the final year. The summative mandatory assessment for the new module will take place at the end of the year and will be case-based with structured questions. Our challenge for 2016-2017 is to deliver the new module at the same time as the last final year of the original curriculum. Angela Fenwick and Debika Hall Clinical Ethics & Law Module Lead and Deputy Module Lead <strong>Facilitator</strong> | Summer 2016 3
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