Personal mentor session

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Personal mentor session

• September 2008
• Susan Dilly

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How is our course organised?

• In years!
• Exam hurdle at the end of the year
• Student Office admin teams in years
• Year Committee
• Head of Year
• Academic Year Tutors
• Module Leads
• Student Selected Components (SSCs)

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Curric timetable
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Where is the information about the course?

• Year Handbook
• Curric 08- http//www.smd-edu.qmul.ac.uk/curriculu
  m/index.php
• SMD education webpage-http//www.smd-edu.qmul.ac.u
  k/
• CE6WebCTintranetVLE (requires log in)

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Other FAQs

• How will the personal mentor system operate?
• Do I know how to be a mentor?
• How will I contact my student?
• How will I know how my student is progressing?
• What do I do if a student has problems?

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Types of student support
Personal mentors
Remedial support
Pastoral care
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Who do the students go to for help?

• Academic queries-
• Lecturer
• PBL tutor
• Module or year lead
• Academic problems-
• various but should be referred to AYT
• Serious non-academic problems-
• Dean for Students Team
• Various- Student Office/ Student Union

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Where should personal mentors go for help?

• By e mail- smd-mentors_at_qmul.ac.uk
• By phone- 0207 882 7214 (Deborah James and Emma
  Wynne)
• PAPeRS queries- Brendan Hewitt b.hewitt_at_qmul.ac.uk
  or 020 7882 2125
• In person- Garrod Building Rm G0.6 (October
  start)
• In emergency-
• Any senior member of staff (Garrod Building)

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Whos who- MBBS programme

• Dean for education-
• Chris Fowler
• Deputy Dean-
• Bruce Kidd
• Programme Delivery-
• Susan Dilly
• Assessment-
• John Patterson

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Whos who- Head of Years

• GEP- Cathy Baker
• Y1- Tricia Revest
• Y2- Mark Carroll
• Y3- Elspeth Alstead
• Y4- Bruce Kidd
• Y5- Mike Roberts

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Whos who- AYTs

• GEP Denise Syndercombe-Court
• Y1 Julian Miller Lesley Robson
• Y2 Margaret Bird David Burleigh
• Y3 Jon Fuller John Anderson
• Y4 Rashna Chenoy Navina Evans
• Y5 Adam Feather Sandra Nicholson
• Professionalism Ania Korzun Valsraj
  Koravangettu

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Whos who- non-academic issues

• Dean for Students
• Mike Roberts
• Deputy Dean
• Joy Hinson
• Admin
• Jacqualyn Connor

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Whos who- Student Office

• Ground floor- Curriculum operations and student
  reception
• Year Teams
• Clinical Placements
• Second floor mezzanine- Assessment Unit and
  admissions

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How do we know if its working?

• First review meeting
• January 20th 2009- Old Library