G4 Blog
International Conference on Virtual Patients – London 2010
April 23rd, 2010 by admin
G4 will be exhibiting and presenting at the 2nd International Conference on Virtual Patients and the MedBiquitous annual conference to he held at County Hall London, 26-28th April 2010. For more information please visit http://www.medbiq.org/events/conferences/2010/index.html
Experiences of a Case Writer
April 22nd, 2010 by admin
I am a respiratory registrar and got involved in case writing while on a “year out” out of my training program, working as a clinical teaching fellow. I have now been involved with writing and updating several of the cases used in T year. I tend to start by reading the original paper case and then sketching out a map of the patient’s pathway. I pick the important or difficult...
Second Life testing day
February 26th, 2010 by admin
On 24th February 2010 a testing day was held with students and tutors, the last case for the year will be delivered through Second Life.
G4 in its second term of delivery
February 10th, 2010 by admin
G4 is now in its second term of course delivery. The first stream of students are 4 weeks into the cases. Students and tutors are more comfortable with the online cases and students on the 5 year stream are adapting to the PBL process.
Cross Cluster meeting – 2nd Dec 2009
February 10th, 2010 by admin
A cross cluster meeting was held at the Open University on 2nd December 2009, between St George’s, The Open University and the University of Hertfordshire. A good discussion about what each project had to offer.
Cluster meeting at Coventry
November 13th, 2009 by admin
A second cluster meeting was held in Coventry, starting with dinner at a nice Thai restaurant, followed by a days meeting at Coventry University. It was good to see the progress of each of the projects and what their next steps will be.
JISC Programme meeting – 13/14 Oct 2009
October 23rd, 2009 by admin
A programme meeting was held on the 13/14th Oct in Manchester. It was a Joint meeting with the Design strand, where all the project came together to share ideas, and update on the progress of projects. There were some interesting projects in the Design strand.
Quote from a student
October 23rd, 2009 by admin
“PBL is fun, it seens to simulate the type of decision making I observed in multi-disciplinary team meetings”