06 Jun 2025
12:30-2pm

SR4, G/F, Room LG-S4, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine Building / Zoom

Background:
While there appears to be no formal requirement or pre-defined route by which UK trainee doctors can become competent teachers during the undergraduate medical degree, Dundee Medical School Scotland offers students a choice to undertake a BMSc (Hons) Medical Education intercalated degree. Designed with assessed modules, teaching portfolio, educational research, and dissertation it is the first to be accredited by Advance HE for this specific group of students to achieve Associate Fellowship of Advance HE (AFHEA); a badge of international recognition increasingly sought by employers across the education sector and clinical academic posts.

Summary of work:
Students create a portfolio of authentic teaching experiences developing their core knowledge, skills, and attributes to educate peers and colleagues, as well as their patients.

Results:
This BMSc with AFHEA (n=92) emphasise professional values; teaching and research; effective and inclusive practice and the notion that the ‘student as teacher’ intercalated programme is an asset to medical education.

Discussion:
Embedding authentic teaching practice within an assessed teaching portfolio aligned with Advance HE requirements provides a valuable measure of success, demonstrates commitment to teaching, learning and the student experience through engagement in a practical process; a route by which trainee doctors develop their competence as teachers.

Take-home messages:
There is value of embedding an assessed teaching portfolio within a Medical Education Intercalated Degree Programme with Associate Fellowship of Advance HE.

All staff are welcome.

Speaker:
Dr. Fiona Muir
Reader (Teaching & Scholarship), Associate Dean Quality Assurance and Enhancement (Medicine), University of Dundee

Moderator:
Prof. Fraide Ganotice
BIMHSE

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