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Whats your style of learning?

Medical Educator is continuously updating its content and its services. In a direct response to a query from one of our members we thought we’d put a poll up about the classic ‘Honey and Mumford’ styles of learning: theorists, activists, reflectors and pragmatists. If you have no idea then that’s fair enough… What they emphasised […]

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Mobile phones in hospitals? That will be the MRSA….

The students today should be ever more vigilant about their mobile phones… Although we’ve polled you to find that you want to use them more for revision purposes, it seems that great exam performance isn’t all that they’re bringing. As the Department of Health in the UK made waves today announcing encouraging news that patients […]

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The Rise of the EMQ (Extended Matching Question!)

EMQ’s EMQ’s are being increasingly used in research and papers have recently been published on their success in the USMLE. Its likely that many medical schools will adopt this N from many approach. An EMQ is simple: its a series of typically 6-10 answers, used a number of times with different question stems.They first cropped […]

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Medical Educator interviews Professor Alan Mortiboys: Perspectives on Emotional Intelligence, and its importance to medical training.

Alan Mortiboys is Professor of Educational Development at Birmingham City University, United Kingdom. He talks to James Bateman from the Medical Educator team about learning theories. Professor Mortiboys lectures at BCU on educational development and also on formal “medical education” programmes to doctors and health professionals including the Masters in Medical Education at the University […]