February 1st, 2011 | 
Author: I’ve come up with an idea. 60 second screencasts with a snippet of information to watch when you have, well, 60 seconds spare. I can make an RSS feed so they can be linked with iTunes, or we can keep them locked away behind the firewall. What do you think?
Here’s the first one, about a CXR I saw in clinic yesterday.
Posted in 60 Second Learning, Phase 2 | 
Tags: Collapse consolidation, CXR, Pleural effusion | 
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DUSA have just announced their Inspire awards – student voted awards for teaching excellence throughout the University.
Visit the page on the DUSA site to read more about it. It would be great if the medical school were to be represented in these University wide awards…
And whilst we’re here – don’t forget about the FaME academy awards. The medical school’s own awards for teaching excellence. You can vote for your favourite lecturer, bedside teacher, supervisor, or tutor. You can find voting forms around the medical school.
Not to upstage our own PRN vodcast team, who you really ought to go visit asap, the Podmedics podcasts are worth a watch. There’s a huge back catalog to go through, but the most recent one is on Pneumonia. Apart from the sea sickness inducing presentation graphics, and the slightly monotone delivery, it all makes sense, and is worth a watch if you’ve forgotten the bons mots we shared back in October….
A 3rd year student, who shall remain anonymous, e-mailed me this week to ask me the names of the Ninewells A&E consultants.
Or she could have walked down to A&E, and asked anyone wearing scrubs where the consultants are.
I mourn the loss of initiative, to be honest. And I don’t really blame the student in question – she’s actually one of the more keen students. Is it really easier to e-mail the Phase 2 convenor than to take either of the other options above?
Sigh.
After a short delay, we have now received the feedback from the phase 2 students for the respiratory block. 69 of the second year responded, which is a little disappointing, but the comments have proved to be very valuable, both negative and positive.
A more comprehensive response will follow, but for now, the main issues raised by the students are.
1. The order of the lectures is not always helpful.
2. The ward based teaching is too variable, with some students getting a lot out of it, and some not.
3. The students like the study guide (which I had thought you all wouldn’t, TBH), and want paper copies of it earlier.
We will be focussing on these issues primarily for next year, so thank you for the feedback. I was particularly encouraged that there were no complaints about lack of formative assessment in the block, in stark contrast to last year!!!
Positives were numerous, but the top 3
1. The ABG tutorial went down a storm, and Dr Stretton’s delivery particularly. In my defence, I did *write* the tutorial…. 😉
2. The MDT was well liked, but I totally accept that the roles should be rotated for each case
3. Changing private study into small group sessions was universally liked, with no-one asking for more private teaching time.
DundeeChest was well liked, and most of you preferred it to BB, apart from one person who prefers the BB discussion forums.
Better late than never? The week three study guide has been around the houses, but it’s finally available here.
The chest block endeth. It’s gone well, from my end at least.
Tomorrow is the end of block feedback session. I strongly encourage you to come along, press some buttons, and let us know your unabashed feedback on the block. We’ll ask you to answer some questions, then we’ll open the floor for you to ask us some questions.
The other thing to mention is for group B2 – I am supposed to be teaching you on the wards at 2. Unfortunately I have to meet a family of a patient at 4, so can we bring the teaching forward to 1? It also means that you’ll get away early, it is POETS day, after all.
TCF
I have no idea why people are unable to download this content from BlackBoard. I sent the material to the medical school on the 23rd September, but people are unable to get at it.
Therefore, here it is for download here:
Yr 2 RoCE student instructions 2010
I have asked the medical school to put the files in a more visible space, but for now, you can get at them here.
The study guide for your microbiology and pathology tutorials is now available here.
This message is for group B2.
Due to a massive cock-up in ward staff communication, I seem to have lost you. I was timetabled to teach you on the ward today at 2. I was called away urgently to see a CF patient in the clinic, so ‘phoned ahead to the ward to ask the ward staff to allocate patients for you to see. Then some 3rd years turned up for a different teaching session, were allocated your patients, and the junior doctors sent you away.
The juniors told me you were coming back at 3, so I taught the 3rd years, and waited for you. By 3:45 you had not turned up again, so I’ve given up and come back to my office.
Most unfortunate, all in all. I suspect you got the weekend itch, which is fair enough.
So, we should try to reschedule for next week.
Let me know when you’re free.
TCF
