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Student transitions – from Y2 to intercalating (New Y3) and back to Y4
Gearing up for Transitions Session 3F
Wednesday 2nd March 2016
Chris Harlow
Timetable
• 1.55 – 2.05 Introduction
• 2.05 – 2.25 Breakout groups
• 2.25 – 2.40 Feedback from groups and general discussion
Changes in intercalating numbers
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2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
Year total Number Intercalating
Percent of students intercalating2010 - 2019
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Disciplines of intercalating students 2015-16N
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BiomedicalSciences
BiologicalSciences
Mol, Gen & PopHealth Sci
Other
New Honours Programmes for 2016-17
• Experimental medicine (Initially 12 students)
• Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Management (Initially 6-8 students)
Perceptions of the Honours Year
• Current:
– “An easy option and a chance to get out of medicine for a year”
• What we should aspire to:
– “An integrated part of the 6 year Programme, with adequate lead in from Y2, and appropriate reintegration into Y4”
How do we achieve this?
• Gain insight into what students need
– Surveys (Students and Programme Organisers)
– Meetings with MSC
– Feedback from SSLC
• Pilot some of these in one HonoursProgramme
If there was some Honours teaching material (such as lectures, and other introductory material and relevant reading, specific to your
Honours Programme) available online during the Summer before you intercalate, would you find this helpful preparation for Honours?
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If there was an introductory online session, with a chance to ‘meet’ your Honours Programme Organiser and some of the previous year’s Honours students, in the
week before Fresher’s Week, would you find this helpful preparation for Honours?
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Current Y2 Intercalating Current Y3
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If there was an opportunity during March for you to spend up to three ½ days in the Research Centre/Department of your chosen Honours discipline, shadowing a current Honours student, would you find this
helpful preparation for Honours?
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If you were given the opportunity to attend Honours student project presentations in early May as a way of finding out about the sort of projects
available in your Honours discipline, would you attend?
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If you were given the opportunity to do your SSC2b project on a topic in, and with a tutor from, your Honours discipline, would
you consider this?
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Honours Programme Organiser Survey
• Only 7 respondents out of 18 Programmes
Do you provide any on line preparatory material for intercalating medical students on your Programme?
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“3rd year course lectures”“Statistical lecture from BiomedicalSciences 3”“Textbook on laboratory techniques”“We provide a two-day coursein Welcome Week for intercalatingmedical students”
Are you aware of any difficulties that intercalating medical students have in transition
from the MBChB Programme to Honours?
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“data interpretation - analysis ofpublished research papers and figures”“biomolecular techniques - basic backgroundin developmental biology” “critical evaluation of research data and papers -What is the evidence?”“biophysics of structural biology”“essay writing and critical analysis”
If your Programme involves writing essays or structured answers, do you currently provide any guidance on essay
writing in your Programme? Evidence suggests that intercalating students find this particularly difficult.
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“we offer a course essay over the summer”“ICA early November”“Guidance in handbook”“Session on Exam technique in week 2”“via the course book and eLearn environment ““Formative Essay, essay outline and practicelong answer exam question”
Would you and your current Honours students be willing to host prospective intercalating students (likely by “shadowing”)
for two half days in week 12 of Semester 2
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What have we done in Reproductive Biology Honours?
• Set up online preparatory course with access to material during the summer– Introduction to the programme
– Year 3 BMS course lectures aligned to Honours core and related elective course
• Held online Blackboard Collaborate session during week before Welcome week– Introduction and meet the Programme Team
– Q & A session
– Breakout rooms – small group exercise
Blackboard Collaborate session
• Attendance:– 6/15 (40%) of UoE medics
– 2/3 (67%) of external medics
– 4/14 (29% BMS students
– 1 medic from 2014-15
• 100% found it interesting
• 100% found it useful
• 92% would recommend it to next year’s class
• 83% liked the small group task
Feedback comments
• “Being able to talk to the organisers and a past student of the course, that was so useful”
• “I think it ran really smoothly and was impressed that you'd never used it before. We were also really well informed about how to use the program and how to access everything”
• “Currently sitting with my flatmates and they're amazed how up-to-date this is! Apparently there isn't an equivalent in History!”
• “Loved the interactivity”
Future Plans to gauge effectiveness
• Trial tutorials on paper reading and analysis, presentation of papers and essay writing
• Trial the shadowing of medical student during RB Honours Project
• Trial sitting in on RB Honours project presentations
Preparation for return to Year 4
• Should Intercalating medical students have additional curriculum material to prepare for return to Y4? eg:
• Include a few clinical sessions (ward rounds, Virtual Clinic?) in honours year (students to arrange themselves during their project)
• Other SSC during honours year?
3 breakout groups
1. Discuss what should be included in Y2 curriculum to help prepare for Honours
2. Discuss what would be useful for HonoursProgrammes to include as preparation or material within the honours year to support intercalating medical students
3. Discuss What should be included during the intercalated year to prepare students to return to (Clinical Years) of the Programme
