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The Peninsula Communication Skills (PCS) app has been well received since its development a few years ago. Students benefit from the apps various vignettes it provides for scenarios such as breaking bad news and my favourite: Dealing with angry patients. Those that haven’t seen the app before, each vignette hosts videos of good and bad examples […]
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There are several challenges to teaching online, and one of the most obvious to those who normally teach in the classroom or studio is how to replicate the use of blackboard or whiteboard online. For some this will be writing, for instance maths or chemistry equations, for others it is drawing; either diagrams/graphs or […]
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This post is one of a series of blog posts that will discuss how the Digital Education team have been working alongside the Peninsula Dental School to replace the traditional paper-based ISCE with a digital solution. Whilst this project has resulted in the digitisation of several forms, this post will focus only on the ISCE. […]
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Introduction Following the introduction of iPads within the Peninsula Medical School in 2017 as part of an initiative to improve the teaching and assessment experience of medical students, the Digital Education (DE) team worked alongside staff and students in the Medical School to provide support and advice in the use of iPads. Whilst initially the […]
Category: iPad
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Peninsula Communication Skills: app update
The Peninsula Communication Skills (PCS) app has been well received since its development a few years ago. Students benefit from the apps various vignettes it provides for scenarios such as breaking bad news and my favourite: Dealing with angry patients. Those that haven’t seen the app before, each vignette hosts videos of good and bad examples […]
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Writing and Drawing in Online Presentations
There are several challenges to teaching online, and one of the most obvious to those who normally teach in the classroom or studio is how to replicate the use of blackboard or whiteboard online. For some this will be writing, for instance maths or chemistry equations, for others it is drawing; either diagrams/graphs or […]
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Replacing paper based assessment within the Peninsula Dental School: The ISCE
This post is one of a series of blog posts that will discuss how the Digital Education team have been working alongside the Peninsula Dental School to replace the traditional paper-based ISCE with a digital solution. Whilst this project has resulted in the digitisation of several forms, this post will focus only on the ISCE. […]
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Moving from a 3rd party iPad management solution to an in-house iPad management solution
Introduction Following the introduction of iPads within the Peninsula Medical School in 2017 as part of an initiative to improve the teaching and assessment experience of medical students, the Digital Education (DE) team worked alongside staff and students in the Medical School to provide support and advice in the use of iPads. Whilst initially the […]