Learning and Teaching
The mission of UNSW Medicine is to provide a
quality education within a community of
learning and
discovery. We believe that education is a
continuous lifelong process that reaches beyond our students’ time at university. UNSW Medicine supports and improves learning and teaching within the Faculty and is committed to
encouraging innovation based on international
best practice and evidence in learning and teaching in Medicine and Higher Education.
The Faculty has three Associate Deans responsible for learning and teaching in the areas of
Medical Education,
Postgraduate Coursework and
Research. In 2007, a new post (Fellow in Learning and Teaching) was created in each faculty by
Learning & Teaching @ UNSW. The Fellow’s main role is to support scholarly practice in learning and learning within the faculty and facilitate communities of practice across disciplines, faculties and externally. The Fellow for the Faculty of Medicine is Dr Rachel Thompson.
A number of
policies and strategies have been developed to support teaching and improve our students’ learning experience. We recognise that our teachers are our greatest resource to enable high quality learning. Both the Faculty and the wider university have a range of resources for
staff development to improve teaching based upon contemporary research on how students learn and processes for review and evaluation. There is also a
Medical Education Interest Group that: meets eight times a year for a seminar series on scholarship and research in learning and teaching. The group publishes a regular newsletter (see below) and holds an annual learning and teaching forum in December.
UNSW L&T Development Grants Guidelines & Application
Applications are now closed for funding of project to be undertaken in 2010
Learning & Teaching Plan 2008-2010
Term dates/teaching period 2008-2009
News
2009
2008
Development & Training
Policies
Postgraduate Academic Supervisors