School of Medicine

Initiatives

Medical School Initiatives

Patients as teachers

This initiative has recruited real patients who have participated in both large and small group teaching as patient educators in the early years if the programme.

It has been funded by a President’s award in UCC and grants from the National Academy for Integration of Research & Teaching & Learning (NAIRTL).

Learning together to work together

These are a series of initiatives designed to expand opportunities for interprofessional and multiprofessional education in the undergraduate medical programme involving schools of Pharmacy, Speech and Hearing Sciences and Occupational Therapy. Some activities have benefited from funding from the National Academy for Integration of Research & Teaching & Learning NAIRTL.

For further information –please contact Dr. Siun O Flynn: siun.oflynn@ucc.ie

This has been developed with the School of Nursing and involves the recruitment of members of the public to participate in role play simulation situations in the teaching and assessment of medical students. It has been funded in part by a grant from the quality promotion unit in UCC.

For further information contact Mr. Simon Smith Director of Communication skills: simon.smith@ucc.ie

Distributed Learning* for UCC Medical Students through the Health Services Virtual Organisation (HSVO)

*Distributed learning - an instructional model that involves using various information technologies to help students learn.http://www.library.cornell.edu/DL/tutorial/tut_2.htm

The HSVO is a “network enabled platform for healthcare training and education”. This platform provides a number of integrated simulation experiences through “edge devices” such as Virtual Patient (VP) cases via Open Labyrinth (OL), Mannequin Simulators such as the Laerdal 3G SimMan linked to a hypovolaemic physiological model, 3D interactive Anatomical images through Volume Segmentation and a cadaveric dissection model.

See document below for more information.