At the start of 2024, the international community of practice involved with quality assessment for…
Curiosity Corner
Here we’ll pose questions on contemporary issues in medical education and respond to questions we’ve been challenged by.
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Lets have what they are having →
When commencing the revision of a training program, you may find yourself looking to the…
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Medical Students – more than a extra pair of hands →
In our working lives we spend a lot of time thinking about barriers and strategies…
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What we’re doing isn’t good enough. A big solution is needed to challenge attrition from surgical training →
Despite many great changes to surgical training in the US, attrition has remained consistently high…
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Patience (in surgical education) is a virtue …. Possess it if you can! →
I’ve long been teaching about the merits of ‘wait time’ when questioning students. And encouraging…
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What’s a conceptual framework and why do I need one? →
If you’re starting out as a researcher in Medical Education you might have been told…
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Literature and feedback – how a person can be inspired by both →
This article links Roald Dahls classic children’s story The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) to feedback. …
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Why the Ardnell Group? →
We have been asked by many about our company name. So we thought we would…
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How are we doing with medical student welfare? →
If one Victorian medical student’s experience published online in MJA InSight is anything to go…
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What does programmatic research in self-assessment look like? →
Today I spent an hour with the late Professor Karen Mann watching a seminar she…