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.
New Blog Page
Our new blog page is now available, along with a post on this year's L&T@UNSW Forum, which can be found at:
http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/meded/
Useful information will be posted here to keep you informed about learning and teaching activities and support within the faculty, across the university and from elsewhere. Please subscribe to get updates sent to you whenever the blog page changes. You can subscribe to live bookmarks via the orange RSS feed on the top right of the page, and you will be notified via your preferred browser if new posts are added and can view the page quickly.
If you wish to be able to comment on the posts, then you need to join UNSW blogs by registering at:
http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/wp-signup.php, after registering, send Rachel your username (not the password!).
Scheduled Meetings and Seminar series for 2011
Welcome to the MedEd Interest Group. 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.
Proposed MedEd Interest Group Seminar meeting dates for 2011 are:
| Dates | Time | Topic | Speakers | Location |
| Session 1 |  | | | |
Wednesday
13 April 2011 | 11 to 12pm | STInG-SoLT Group * | | Seminar Room LG02
Wallace Wurth Building
Kensington Campus |
Wednesday
13 April 2011 | 12 to 1 pm | Identifying and tackling the key issues in Assessment | Professor Phil Jones | Seminar Room LG02
Wallace Wurth Building
Kensington Campus |
Wednesday
11 May 2011 | 12 to 1pm | Cancelled due to VC's postponed town hall meeting for the faculty. | | |
Wednesday
8 June 2011 | 10.30 to 12pm | STInG-SoLT Group * combined with MedEd Group.
How to design course assessments that are well aligned with course content and objectives. | A/Prof. Chris Hughes | Scenario Room 6
Mathews Building
Kensington Campus |
| Session 2 | | | | |
Tuesday
9 August 2011 | 8 to 9am | What can we learn from test results using item response theory? | Professor Phil Jones | Lower Ground Floor, LG 03
Wallace Wurth Building
Kensington Campus |
Wednesday
14 September 2011 | 11 to 12pm | STInG-SoLT Group * | | Scenario Room 6
Mathews Building
Kensington Campus |
Wednesday
14 September 2011 | 12 to 1pm | Postponed due to Learning & Teaching Forum
16 September 9am to 2pm
http://teaching.unsw.edu.au/forum-september-2011 | | Scenario Room 6
Mathews Building
Kensington Campus |
| Tuesday 19 October | 8am to 930am | Planning and Study Design | | Scenario Room 1,
Samuels Building |
| Wednesday 19 October | 11am to 1pm | MedEd STInG-SoLT Group *
Joint Workshop with Science Faculty on Assessment with the Practicum / Clinical Teaching Environment | Combined MedEd & SoLT meeting | Room 121/122
Valentine Annexe |
Wednesday
9 November 2011 | 12 to 1pm | MedEd & STInG-SoLT Group*
How to get the most out of audience response systems: using clickers in large class teaching. | | LG 02
Wallace Wurth Building
Kensington Campus |
Wednesday
7 December 2011 | 9 am to 2:00 pm | Annual Medical Faculty L&T Forum
Presenters on the learning and teaching projects, curricular design and innovative teaching activities and strategies. Lunch will follow the presentation of the Faculty’s Teaching Awards at 1pm.
For more information and registration details, please click here | If you are interested in presenting, please send an email to:
| Scenario Rooms 6-8
Mathews Building
Kensington Campus |
* New sub-group forming this year under Gary Velan. This group is aiming to bring together SoMS teaching staff keen to do research in education and extend their scholarship in learning and teaching. Draft name = SOMS Teaching Interest Group in the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (STInG-SoLT).
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
If you have any good ideas / requests for topics/ speakers/ invitees for the meetings this year, please send them on to me. So far, the following ideas have been raised for 2011:
- Advice on assessment, Peter Goodyear from Usyd;
- Research into Learning and teaching – eg advice and support.
Send more topic requests or suggestions for speakers ASAP via email to .
Learning &Teaching Forum Program Guide 2009
Learning & Teaching Research Forum Program Guide 2008
Meeting Location
For meeting locations 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 .