Category: Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia

Building students’ confidence and capability in oral communication

Posted on by Nuala

How Tariq Shafi, Senior Pre-Clinical Lecturer at NuMed Malaysia, supports Stage 1 Medicine students to develop oral communication skills through a staged research communication task. The approach combines formative preparation, small-group presentation, peer questions and immediate feedback to help students build confidence and capability in a supportive environment Our challenge  Oral communication is an important part of students’ Read more about Building students’ confidence and capability in oral communication[…]

Combining interactive voting technology and high-fidelity patient simulations in the lecture theatre

Posted on by Claire Burnham

Dr Clare Guilding, Dean of Academic Affairs Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia Medical Sciences What did you do? We incorporated SimMan into pre-clinical pharmacology teaching, to build a deeper level of understanding of the subject and place the patient at the heart of the learning experience. SimMan is a high-fidelity patient simulator who can be programmed Read more about Combining interactive voting technology and high-fidelity patient simulations in the lecture theatre[…]