Innovative BSc Medical and Health Sciences Mentoring Programme 2023 launched

7 Nov 2023

Now in its sixth year, the BSc Medical and Health Sciences' Mentoring programme 2023 was launched by Dr Louise Collins BSc Medical and Sciences Coordinator in the Western Gateway building on October 13th, 2023.  

At an informal buffet lunch first year BSc Medical and Sciences students and academic staff from the BSc Medical and Health Sciences programme chatted with their mentors and mentees.  Professor Aideen Sullivan Academic Director BSc Medical and Health Sciences, Dr Cian McCafferty, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Dr Cathal McCarthy, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Dr Colette Hand, Department of Pathology, Dr Karen Matvienko-Sikar, School of Public Health, and Dr Louise Collins  Course Coordinator BSc MHS, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience and Department of Physiology chatted with first year Medical and Health Sciences students at the event. 

Mentoring is a reciprocal and collaborative learning and development relationship between a more experienced academic mentor and a mentee or group who is less experienced. It creates a space of guidance, direction, feedback, dialogue, reflection, inquiry and action. The mentoring relationship supports mentees to plan and realise learning goals and enhance critically reflective academic practice” (Boles & Diehm, 20131 pg. 7).

The BSc Medical and Health Sciences programme focuses on human health and disease from year one and this allows the BSc Medical and Health Sciences degree programme the space and time to educate the students to a deep level in human Anatomy, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Physiology and Public Health and to introduce modules on Translational Medicine throughout the degree.

This mentoring programme aims to support the students as they begin their Translational Medicine journey. Translational Medicine is research aimed at taking laboratory discoveries through to clinical applications and the students study translational medicine as a major theme running through the four years of the degree.

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News item and photographs Bereniece Riedewald