Education – Page 6 – Medically speaking…

2018 summary

19/12/201819/12/2018

Careers, Education, Professional, Professor Diana Eccles, Public engagement, Undergraduate

Medics Revue is one of the events marking the Christmas season calendar and for any of you who were part of similar shows in your student days, you will find that the entertainment that is on offer is a tradition

14/12/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Careers, Education, Professional, Professor Karen Morrison, Undergraduate

We are nearing the end of another busy term, trying to ensure all urgent and important tasks are progressed, along with most of the important and less urgent ones, while aiming to keep a check on the mountain of those

26/10/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Education, Professional, Professor Philip Calder, Public engagement

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “academic (noun)” as “a teacher or scholar in a university or college” and defines “university” as a “high-level educational institution in which students study for degrees and academic research is done”. Google Dictionary defines “academic

12/10/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Education

The announcements last week of the award of the 2018 Nobel prizes in Physiology or Medicine to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”; and in Chemistry, …

12/10/201812/10/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Careers, Education, Professional, Professor Tim Elliott, Public engagement, Research

So much has happened at the Centre for Cancer Immunology since my last blog, and in retrospect it all seemed to be leading up to Friday’s Vice Chancellors Awards ceremony held at St Mary Stadium…

21/09/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Education, Professor Karen Morrison, Undergraduate

I’m writing this the evening before a meeting with the General Medical Council and HEE Wessex, when we will be formally given feedback from our regulator on their five yearly Review of our University of Southampton BMBS Medicine programmes.

14/09/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Education, Professional, Professor Diana Eccles

Welcome everyone to the first eNews blog of the new term and my first as Dean. Reflecting on my first two weeks, it has been incredibly busy meeting people both here and at Highfield.

02/02/201802/02/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Dr Lucy Green, Education, Professional, Public engagement, Research

What kind of scientist are you – introvert or extrovert? Academia of 30 years ago was a bit of an ‘Ivory Tower’, a state of privileged seclusion.

19/01/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Education, Marcus Parry, Professional, Undergraduate

The latest edition of Medical Education[i], which has long been the top ranked journal of its kind[ii], reminds us that it is 30 years since the Edinburgh Declaration[iii] was approved at the World Conference on Medical Education held in the

12/01/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Education, Mark Hanson, Professional, Research

Most of us aspire to have better bodies – we dream of looking younger, more shapely, whatever…. but we don’t want to invest a lot of time or money to achieve this even if it is our #1 new year’s