Education Development and Support Unit
The Education Development and Staff Support Unit (EDSSU) staff members are available to assist conveners, clinical teachers and other staff involved in the MB ChB programme in a range of educational matters including: the planning, development, delivery, assessment and evaluation of courses, professional development, research with an educational focus and confirmation pathway processes. The following are some of the resources provided for your use:
Individual and group sessions
Your local Education Adviser regularly runs professional development workshops for staff as well as individual sessions. Visit your local Education Unit website to learn more.
- Education support for ELM staff
- Education support for OMS (Dunedin campus) staff
- Education support for UOC staff
- Education support for UOW staff
Online professional development
Check out current online professional development opportunities
17 August 2022 – Teaching practical skills
Additional resources for reading:
Teaching Skills Best Practice image
20 July 2022 – Fostering a positive learning environment
Fostering a positive learning environment
Additional resources for reading:
- Fostering a positive learning environment - Presentation slides (PDF)
- Fostering a positive learning environment - Session Chat (PDF)
15 June 2022 – Addressing challenges presented by students
Addressing challenges presented by students
Additional resources for reading:
18 May 2022 – Maximizing learning in large groups
Maximizing learning in large groups video
Additional resources for reading:
6 April 2022 – Effective questioning
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16 March 2022 – Assessing professionalism
Assessing professionalism video
Additional resources for reading:
- Code of Professional Conduct for Medical Students (PDF)
- Ottawa 2010 Conference Recommendations (PDF)
- Towards a Definition of Distinction in Professionalism (PDF)
- Selection and professionalism in the service of patient care (PDF)
- Professionalism in its time and place (PDF)
- Joining the dots (PDF)
- A Blueprint to Assess Professionalism (PDF)
- Padlet entries during the session (PDF)
- Effective questioning slides (PDF)
16 February 2022 – Making Zoom sessions interactive
- Making Zoom sessions interactive (PDF)
- Polling options handout (PDF)
- Making Zoom sessions interactive video
Access the archive of online professional development workshops
OMS Educational Journal Club
24 March 2022 - Excellence in medical training: developing talent – not sorting it
Excellence in medical training: developing talent – not sorting it
Additional resources for reading
Resources for new staff members
Departmental checklist for new academic staff (PDF)
Induction handbooks
- OMS MB ChB Induction Guide for Clinical Teachers (PDF)
- UOC MB ChB Induction Guide for Clinical Teachers (PDF)
- UOW MB ChB Induction Guide for Clinical Teachers (PDF)
Resources for module conveners
Guides
The guides breakdown the responsibilities of the module convener and support available to help them carry these out.
- MB ChB Module Conveners Role Description (PDF)
- MB ChB Module Conveners Guide to Evaluation (PDF)
- MB ChB Module Conveners Assessment Guide (PDF)
Resources for all staff
Do you know? A series of information sheets on current medical education topics produced for staff
- DYK 19: The Hauora Māori curriculum
- DYK 18: Interprofessional education (PDF)
- DYK 17: Dealing with challenging learners (PDF)
- DYK 16: Questioning (PDF)
- DYK 15: Planning a teaching session (PDF)
- DYK 14: Simulation (PDF)
- DYK 13: Communities of practice (PDF)
- DYK 12: Assessing students (PDF)
- DYK 11: Clinical setting as a learning environment (PDF)
- DYK 10: Making the most of participating in feedback (PDF)
- DYK 9: Making the most of bedside teaching (PDF)
- DYK 8: Impromptu small group sessions (PDF)
- DYK 7: Planned small group teaching (PDF)
The DYK series began to update staff working in ALM of what differences they might expect of students after the changes made to ELM in 2008. Numbers 1–6 have now been archived.
- DYK 6: Integrating medical and clinical sciences in ELM
- DYK 5: Professionalism in ELM
- DYK 4: Clinical reasoning in ELM
- DYK 3: Clinical skills in ELM
- DYK 2: The transition from Year 3 to Year 4
- DYK 1: Consultation skills in ELM
Assessment resources
Podcasts
Developed by Med Ed Source, a production of the Department of Medical Education at University of Melbourne, Australia.
- Failure to fail & conditional passes – Part 1
- Failure to fail & conditional passes – Part 2
- Programmatic assessment – Part 1
- Programmatic assessment – Part 2
(Including references to recent publications on the subject)
Curriculum development resources
- For a description on the agreed process for change in curriculum matters which involve content and/or outcomes, but not matters such as changes to programming/timetabling or assessment refer to the document and flowchart, updated March 2019:
Process and flowchart for curriculum content / outcome changes in the MB ChB curriculum (PDF) - Intercampus Collaborative Teaching Initiative Application Form (DOCX)
- Reports from intercampus meetings are available to staff via the Moodle MCC page (University username and password required)
