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Postgraduate Course: Current issues in clinical education (MEED11025)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh Medical School CollegeCollege of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course typeOnline Distance Learning AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course is aimed at experienced practising healthcare professionals with an educational remit. The aim of the course is to allow students to undertake an in depth study into a topical area of their choice in clinical education. The course will allow students to develop their research skills, produce an informed, evidence-based position paper and engage in academic debate.
This process will allow students to consider the role of education in improving practice and more general benefits to society.
Whilst the choice of topic will be the students, it is envisaged topics may include inter-professional education, social inclusion, stakeholder engagement, MOOC¿s or widening access.
Course description This course is aimed at experienced practising healthcare professionals with an educational remit. The aim of the course is to allow students to undertake an in depth study into a topical area of their choice in clinical education. The course will allow students to develop their research skills, produce an informed, evidence-based position paper and engage in academic debate.

This process will allow students to consider the role of education in improving practice and more general benefits to society.
Whilst the choice of topic will be the students, it is envisaged topics may include inter-professional education, social inclusion, stakeholder engagement, MOOC¿s or widening access.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Identify a topical area in clinical education and undertake an in-depth period of independent study in the area of their choice
  2. Critically engage with, and evaluate the literature in the area of choice
  3. Synthesise information gathered, selection of relevant points and distillation to produce a short position paper
  4. Lead an online seminar and communicate key findings to peer group
  5. Actively engage in peer assessment
Reading List
Scottish Executive (1999) Learning Together: A strategy for Education, Training and Lifelong learning for all staff in the National Health Service in Scotland SE, Edinburgh http://www.scotland.gov.uk/learningtogether/ltle-00.htm
The Open University Life Long Learning - A Global Colloquium
http://www.open.ac.uk/lifelong-learning/papers/
Quality Assurance agency for Higher Education ¿ Benchmarking http://www.qaa.ac.uk/crntwork/benchmark/scot_index.htm
Society for Research in Higher Education (2003) The white paper and the Bologna Agreement www.srhe.ac.uk/news/news1103.pdf
Higher Education Academy located at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/
Rice CD 2004 Enlightened Universities ¿ Beyond Political Agendas Series: Society No 4 Edinburgh Policy Institute http://www.abdn.ac.uk/principal/speeches/june04.doc
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Special Arrangements Online environments are used for the teaching, learning and assessment of all courses on the MSc programme. This includes the Waverley Suite, allowing interactive visual, audio, textural and graphical modes of communication, in the same synchronous or asynchronous event.
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMrs Gillian Aitken
Tel: 0131 242 6536
Email:
Course secretaryMrs Debbie Spence
Tel: (0131 6)51 6536
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