BSc Applied Health (Medical Education)

Year 1

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Science)

Learning outcomes

1. Deploy educational theory, principles, and evidence to inform teaching and assessment plans, teaching practice and educational research
2. Identify an important medical education research question and develop an appropriate research design, defending own methodological choices and considering ethical dimensions
3. Identify implications of own research for educational practice and/or research and reflect on any uncertainties, limitations, or complexities that emerged during the research process
4. Teach and support learning, implementing learning activities to enable understanding and engagement, and to address intended learning outcomes

5. Explain the principles, systems, stakeholders and societal trends that inform medical education curricula
6. Explain the rationale for using a range of different assessment methods in medical education, including theoretical justification
7. Employ a curious, questioning, and critical stance in relation to academic literature, received opinion and established educational practice
8. Seek, evaluate and use feedback to develop reflective practice as an educator and scholar
9. Communicate clearly and persuasively in written, oral, and digital formats, selecting appropriate techniques and tools for the topic, situation, and audience.

Transferable (key) skills

Analytical skills
communication skills
critical thinking
initiative
critical analysis of policy documents
debate and group work

Assessment

Achivement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the programme.

This will include:
- demonstrating the abiltiy to apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline.
- work that draws on a wide variety of material
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent in depth enquiry within the discipline