University College Medical School: Quality Assurance Unit

1. University College Medical School: Quality Assurance Unit Programme The Second National Conference on Student Evaluation: Embedding Evaluation: Working with Students to Close the Loop Friday 27th February University College London, Wilkins Old Refectory, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT. In collaboration with:

2. University College Medical School: Quality Assurance Unit Dr Anita Berlin Anita Berlin is a general medical practitioner and a senior lecturer in primary care at UCL. As Sub Dean for Quality in the medical school and Head of its Quality Assurance Unit l her gaol is to improve the students experience. She has a masters in education from the Institute of Education where she is currently undertaking a doctorate. Jerry Booth Jerry Booth has managed quality and standards at the Hull York Medical School since its inception in 2003, dealing with both universities and the General Medical Council. The new school provided an opportunity to experiment with student-centered forms of evaluation alongside more traditional methods designed to gauge their experience of the curriculum and its delivery. In 2004, mindful of the importance of clinical placement teaching in the curriculum Jerry and 2 colleagues secured a grant from the Fund for Innovation and Development in Teaching and Learning of the University of York to devise workshops which explore the learning experience with students and prepare them for making individual detailed observations of the teaching they receive. The notes from these individual observations are then used in a discussion between the 4 students who make up each clinical placement group which results in a collectively agreed letter to the tutor about their teaching. This individually observed and collectively agreed form of appraisal fits quite well with HYMS’ emphasis on communication skills and discussions of professionalism and it also leads students to reflect on their own and others’ learning styles. An account of the process may be found in this month’s issue of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, and the workshop session will explore how students, particularly those on vocational courses can be encouraged to participate in improving the provision they are offered and learn how to give constructive, and if necessary critical feedback to staff. Dr Ann Griffin Ann Griffin is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Community Based Medical Education at Barts and The London, School of Medicine and Dentistry and Honorary Consultant Enfield Primary Care Trust. She works clinically in general practice in North London. She is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education and has various educational roles. She, like Anita, is currently embarked on a research doctorate at the Institute of Education looking at evaluation and quality in education. Ms Lynne Magorrian Lynne Magorrian has been instrumental in the development of on-line student evaluation for Community Based Medical Education (CBME) and more recently Barts and the London, School of Medicine & Dentistry. The success of the work that Lynne was involved in (07/08) for the pilot means that CBME are no longer using the paper-based evaluation and the results of which have encouraged the Medical School to adopt the system across undergraduate teaching. Presenters’ Details In collaboration with:

3. University College Medical School: Quality Assurance Unit Presenters’ Details Continued Pete Walker, Assistant Director ILRT & BOS Service Director Pete is an IT professional with 20 years experience in the IT industry - in local government, two software houses and for the past 8 years with the University of Bristol. He leads a team in the Institute of Learning and Research Technology (ILRT) who specialize in the commercial development of Web sites and web applications. He directs the Bristol Online Survey (BOS) service. He is also a member of the management team within the University’s Information Services. While with the ILRT Pete has also project-managed the Careers in Research Online Survey (CROS) project - a UK-wide collaborative survey that has involved over 60 UK Universities issuing a common survey within a bench-marking club. CROS led to the formation of BOS as a commercial service which in turn enabled the deployment of further national benchmarking surveys: the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) and the Athena Survey of Science Engineering and Technology (ASSET) survey. Lord Young, Parliamentary Under Secretary Of State for Skills and Apprenticeships Lord Tony Young is currently responsible for engaging employers in Train to Gain, building employer support for apprenticeships, Skills Pledge, National Skills Academies, Sector Skills Councils, including Sector Compacts, UK Commission for Employment and Skills. Lord Young is also Minister for Students. Lord Young started his career in 1958 as a Telecommunications apprentice for GPO (General Post Office). During his career, Lord Young was elected Union Branch Officer (1967), and in 1978 was elected to the National Executive Committee. In 1989 he became General Secretary for the National Communications Union, before the Union merged with the Postal Workers Union to form the Communications Workers’ Union. He became the joint General Secretary and then Senior Deputy General Secretary until 2002. Lord Young was a member of the General Council, Trades Union Congress (TUC) 1989 – 2002, President 2001-2002 and Governor of BBC in 1998 – 2002. In 2004, Lord Young was knighted to become Lord Young of Norwood Green in the London Borough of Ealing. Handouts and Workshop Materials These will all be available on the UCL website after the conference. The URL will be: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/??????? In collaboration with: