At the start of 2024, the international community of practice involved with quality assessment for…
Medical education
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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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ABC of written assessment →
This article gave us a welcome reminder about an important assessment principle. Question formats should…
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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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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…
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Do students need more stress? →
An opinion we’ve heard in surgical circles is that adding a ‘bit of stress’ to…
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We can recommend an article we’ve just read on giving feedback. It will take you 10 minutes to read and digest and we think it’s worth it! →
We’ve stumbled across many time-consuming arguments between practitioners defending their own preferences in terms of…