2024 Awardees
The Division is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Teaching Excellence Awards – for Project Awards only:
PROJECTS
Dr. Damion Young (Strategic fund for experimentation with, and development, of AI in teaching and learning in MSD) – This award will assist with the development of two projects, including 'Communication skills 'patient' chatbot for medical students'– a mobile application that provides medical students with additional opportunities to practice their communication skills. The app features customisable virtual artificial intelligence (AI) 'patients', allowing students to engage with a variety of communication scenarios. The award will also contribute to the project 'Assessing and developing student and staff use of AI for academic writing in postgraduate taught courses' by developing a plugin which will allow students equal access to the latest version of ChatGPT within virtual learning environments, whilst allowing course teams to monitor use without capturing the content exchanged with the AI.
Dr. Jennifer Carter (Assessing and developing student and staff use of AI for academic writing in postgraduate taught courses) – This award will support students with their academic writing skills by utilising AI. The project will assess current use of and confidence with AI tools for academic writing within several Master's programmes, and thereafter, develop skills training in AI to help students develop academic writing skills during their postgraduate taught course.
Dr. Deborah Hay (Development of Practical Teaching in Laboratory Medicine) – This award will support the development and delivery of practical sessions in lab diagnostics for all Year 4 / Graduate-entry Year 2 medical students, developing their hands on skills and solidifying their understanding of microscopic diagnosis in real clinical pathways.
Dr. Gina Hadley (A supportive approach to Neuropalliative Care: Enabling tomorrow's doctors to care for people with neurological conditions, their families and each other through case-based learning and museum based-reflection) – This award will support the development and delivery of a new teaching session for Year 5 / Graduate-entry Year 3 medical students about end-of-life care in neurological conditions linked to an existing museum experience that supports reflection to equip students with essential knowledge and prepare them for the unpredictability and complexity of life-limiting illnesses and death.
Dr. Rumyana Smilevska (Impact of virtual reality-based teaching of the anatomy of the gastrointestinal vasculature for medical students: a randomized controlled trial) – This award will support the delivery of a randomised trial of virtual reality (VR) headsets for teaching of anatomy to first year medical students. The trial will evaluate the potential of VR teaching as compared to the traditional dissection room prosection method to obtain quantitative evidence to support the inclusion of VR teaching more widely in medical education.
Dr. Emily Morris (the 'What I Wish I Knew' Teaching Series) – This award will support the delivery of a 12-session teaching programme for final year medical students, focused on practical 'ward-based' scenarios and problems which newly-graduated doctors will encounter from their very first shift. The teaching series aims to smooth this transition by identifying and addressing important knowledge gaps and enhancing confidence within a controlled and supportive environment.
Congratulations to all of the awardees.