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Health Has Got Talent 2015 – Evidence-informed Teaching Strategies in Speech and Language Therapy

This is a summary of the work that we presented at Health Has Got Talent 2015. One of the challenges of teaching therapy skills to speech and language therapy students is considering how to incorporate practical work into the lecture environment, especially with very large groups of students with different levels of experience.  This is…Continue Reading Health Has Got Talent 2015 – Evidence-informed Teaching Strategies in Speech and Language Therapy

Using walking to set the community in a social, political and historical context: The Public Health History Walk

I have been using walking as part of my teaching for a while now, and there are a number of ways this can be incorporated into your educational activities, some of which I will describe in future vignettes. Here, though, I will focus on one particular method of using walking in teaching, the guided walk, using an…Continue Reading Using walking to set the community in a social, political and historical context: The Public Health History Walk

Health Has Got Talent 2015: ‘My experiences in the Big Chair’ – Service user experiences of common eye diseases

This is a summary of the work I presented at the Health Has Got Talent event 2015. As an optometry student, some of the most important parts of the degree is to perfect your ability to perform an eye test, diagnose eye diseases, and manage patients. All optometry students will have to abide by the…Continue Reading Health Has Got Talent 2015: ‘My experiences in the Big Chair’ – Service user experiences of common eye diseases

Health has got Talent 2015: Simple methods for complex learning

This blog post is to describe the work I entered into Health has got Talent 2015. In 2014 I started using simulated on-line role plays for mental health nursing students.  The premise of the activity is that the students are given a scenario about a service user with complex needs. They are then allocated a…Continue Reading Health has got Talent 2015: Simple methods for complex learning

Health’s Got Talent: Student, Academic and Ed Tech collaboration

In April 2015 I met with Ursula Smith, Programme Manager for undergraduate Child Health programmes and now Associate Dean for Postgraduate Taught, CPPD and Workforce Development in SHS. She told me about a project she had wanted to start which would take students out of the lecture room and clinical skills lab, and give them…Continue Reading Health’s Got Talent: Student, Academic and Ed Tech collaboration

Health’s got talent: Games with aims

  This blog is a review of the work we presented at the Health’s Got Talent event in May 2015. This year we gave an overview of the way games and simulation were used within the ultrasound programme and were fortunate to be awarded the “gold award” for teaching innovation. This blog gives an insight into…Continue Reading Health’s got talent: Games with aims