Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine

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Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for
Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine

• Nigel Purcell
• Senior Educational Advisor

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The purpose of the subject centres

• Support institutions in their strategies for
  improving the student learning experience in the
  relevant subject areas
• Support and inform the professional development
  of staff teaching in the relevant subject areas
• Identify and disseminate knowledge of good
  practice in learning and teaching in the
  relevant subject areas
• Support and promote research and evaluation into
  how to improve the quality of the student
  learning experience in the relevant subject
  areas

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Types of institutional/Subject Centre engagement
and Partnerships

• Conferences
• Workshops
• Email communications, monthly bulletin
• Newsletter and special reports
• Funded mini-projects
• Special interest groups
• Enquiries/website resources http//www.medev.heaca
  demy.ac.uk/
• Work with schools to develop
• staff, including promoting educational research
• funding proposals (and successfully run projects)
• teaching, learning and assessment

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Engagement with Scotland

• Ten of our NPCs
• Two Subject Specialist Advisors
• Veterinary support based in Edinburgh
• Events in Scotland
• Breaking Boundaries _at_ Edinburgh
• ACETS _at_ Edinburgh
• Subject centre conference _at_ Glasgow
• Learning and teaching medical ethics
• Mini-projects, 30 of our projects are from
  Scotland

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The RAFTT project

• Resource archive for teacher trainers
• Professional learning community
• Weblog for submitting and sharing training
  resources
• Regular meetings/workshops to discuss process and
  submit and evaluate resources
• Approx 30 resources already uploaded
• http//www.medev.ac.uk/blogs/raftt/

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For discussion

• How effective are current methods of engagement?
• How might they be further enhanced?
• What other methods of engagement might be used?
• How can the implementation of the Quality
  Enhancement Framework be supported at the subject
  level?