Medical Education Interest Group
The Medical Education Interest Group was formed in November 2006 following a research presentation forum held at UNSW.
The group aims to bring together medical faculty staff interested in education issues to support scholarly practice, encourage research and create new networks amongst its members.
Its main activities are a monthly seminar series, monthly newsletter and yearly research forum.
This forum aims to bring together the many teachers and educationists within the faculty for a networking occasion, and also to give everyone the chance to air their work, papers in progress and discuss problematic teaching topics.
2009 Proposed Meetings
Welcome back to the MedEd Interest Group. This year the meeting times will alternate between early morning and lunchtime slots in order to cater for as many people as possible. Most meetings take place in the first week of the month. By request, as many meetings as possible will involve speakers or discussion on learning and teaching topics. These will be recommended to new teachng staff and our hope is that these L&T topic sessions will develop into a discussion forum / mentoring session.
| Dates 2009 | Time | Topic | Location |
Thursday
12 March
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Seminar meeting with Dr Jason Frank Canadian expert on CanMEDS (clinical core competencies)
http://rcpsc.medical.org/canmeds/index.php
Please note: a meeting is also planned Fri 13th at PoWH | Samuels building
Room 241
(Level 2) |
Wednesday
8 Aprl | 11:30 - 13:00 | Feedback from Summer conferences ANZAME 09 abstracts and papers | Samuels building
Room 241
(Level 2) |
Tuesday
5 May | 8:00 - 9:30 | Research in education 1— Getting started | SGR 6,
Matthews UG |
Thursday
4 June | 11:30 - 13:00 | ANZAME presentations
Chris Hughes, Kerrie Moore, Rachel Thompson | SGR 6,
Matthews UG |
| Mid Session Break |  | | |
Tuesday
4 August | 8:00 - 9:30 | Feedback from Winter Conferences | SGR 6,
Matthews UG |
Wednesday
2 September | 11:30 - 13:00 | Research in education 3 — Writing up and getting published
(speakers to be confirmed) | New Location: LG02 (new seminar room) in the lower ground floor of Wallace Wurth building. |
Tuesday
20 October | 10:00 - 11:30 | John Barnard, an expert in assessment from Melbourne, is coming to talk and lead a discussion on what we can learn from assessment. He will talk for around an hour and we have the room booked for up to a further hour of discussion time.
Please print the flyer and display locally to help us to advertise this event. | LG02,
Lower Ground Floor, Wallace Wurth |
Thursday
5 November | 11:30 - 13:00 | Research in Education 2 — Ethics Approval and Design
A/Prof. Heather Worth | LG03, Lower Ground Floor Wallace Wurth |
Wednesday
2 December | 9:30 - 13:30 | MedEd L&T Forum
Presentation of Faculty L&T Awards and FULT graduates
All Welcome | LG02
Lower Ground floor,
Wallace Wurth
|
Learning and Teaching (L&T) topic suggestions:
- Student learning - the essentials
- Large group teaching - how to make lectures more interactive, etc
- Small group teaching - key skills of a tutor
- Team teaching
- Ethics approval for L&T research - the why and the how
- Assessment - multiple choice questions
- Research - teaching nexus: inspiring our students
Send more topic requests or suggestions for speakers ASAP via email to .
Learning & Teaching Research Forum Program Guide 2008
Meeting Location
Scenario group
room 6 under Matthews Building, upper campus - see
UNSW Upper Campus map
If you would like to join up, send your details (name and email address) to .
Discussion Forum
We have a Google Group - used for: discussion in between meetings; hot topics; sharing of recent developments and innovations and also for networking.
For more information on how it works see
Google Groups.
If you would like to join up - please send your details (name and email address) to .