Category: Teaching
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Staff v Student Football
Unfortunately I missed the School of Medicine staff vs student football tournament this week. It was billed as the start of a range of tournaments between staff and student groups, so I hope to attend the future games. I wasn’t actually planning to play, but I was looking forward to taking lots of action photos.…
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End of term
The 1st year medicine students are approaching the end of term, and the end of their first year. It’s a long, tough year, but they have one more teaching week next week, a reading week, and then a week of exams. They have some more work to do after that, but we won’t be directly…
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Royal Visit
The Prince of Wales will be visiting Swansea University at the beginning of next month. He’s not interested in the School of Medicine though, more the Institute of Environmental Sustainability. Full story
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Medsoc Summer Ball
Here’s a photo of Clive delivering an on-form after dinner speech at last night’s Medsoc summer ball. An entertaining evening beside the sea (in true Swansea style) at the Oxwich hotel. Thanks for inviting us lecturers!
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iPod more popular than beer?
apple.slashdot.org/apple/06/06/08/1954233.shtml And while I’m linking to /. articles, here’s another one about the prevalence and importance of the iPod at Universities. The information is based upon US uni’s, but from my own experience I’d apply it to UK institutions too, and suggest that this is a very good reason for providing students with podcast based…
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GMC
Our regulating body (the General Medical Council) visited today. They’re studying our course this year to make sure we’re up to scratch and to recommend improvements. Needless to say, we’ve been building up to today for some time, but in the end didn’t really put much on for show, as Thursdays are good clinical teaching…