{"id":658,"date":"2020-04-30T20:33:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T19:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/medicallyspeaking\/?p=658"},"modified":"2020-04-30T20:33:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T19:33:35","slug":"what-a-start-by-jane-wilkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/medicallyspeaking\/2020\/04\/30\/what-a-start-by-jane-wilkinson\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat a start\u201d by Jane Wilkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Little did I know what was to come when I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/medicine\/news\/2020\/02\/07-new-association-dean-for-education-appointed.page?\">appointed as Associate Dean for Education<\/a> in January of this year! <br><br>These are very difficult and perilous times, but I have been overwhelmed by the positive response from staff and students. Everyone has worked extremely hard to get the Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes back on the road.<br><br>Students are now &#8220;back&#8221; and engaging with the resources online. I am delighted that we managed to graduate our final year students early some of whom have already joined the workforce. I believe that the relationship between the University and the NHS has been strengthened as a result of the students&#8217; response to the pandemic.<br><br>We are constantly told that this is a marathon and not a sprint. We have much to do to prepare for the next academic year which will look very different, but I am confident that staff and students will work together to make this the best quality experience that it can be under the circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little did I know what was to come when I was appointed as Associate Dean for Education in January of this year! These are very difficult and perilous times, but I have been overwhelmed by the positive response from staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3796,"featured_media":659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,41,24,27,15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-jane-wilkinson","category-phd","category-postgraduate","category-professional","category-undergraduate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/medicallyspeaking\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/04\/Jane-Wilkinson1.jpg?fit=2064%2C1376&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8r5I4-aC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/medicallyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/medicallyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/medicallyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/medicallyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/medicallyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/medicallyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/medicallyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/medicallyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/medicallyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/medicallyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/medicallyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}