I have had many Leicester Medical students ask me about more question banks to study with. Well, after you have gone through all of your Examplify quizzes and everything on TeachMeAnatomy and SimpleMed, you might want to have a look at this free MCQ question bank: Medguide.uk.
It comes from Warwick Medical School, and is certainly worth a try!
Terese Bird
Leicester Medical School Educational Designer
I haven’t managed to write many blog posts recently. As soon as UK lockdown due to Covid-19 pandemic was announced in March, my job as Educational Designer went a bit crazy. Suddenly, for every year group, everyone who teaches, every block — every situation of learning and assessing had to occur online.
In the words of Prof Holland, medicine is a contact sport. For obvious reasons, medical study cannot happen totally online. And yet, for these weeks, it had to. Here are few examples of pedagogical and technological strategies I employed during these days.
Student-led Revision Sessions – On the day the lockdown was announced, the leads of student society Leicester Insight contacted me to ask how might the planned revision sessions continue. I set them up to use Blackboard Collaborate and discussed how sessions could run with clinical staff and students from all years of medicine taking part as both participants and leaders. The Twitter image below (used with the permission of Leicester Insight @leicinsight) gives a glimpse into a well-attended year 5 learning session around a particular patient case, with students freely typing questions and arising issues.
End-of-the-Week Question-and-Answer Sessions Reprising the Week’s Topics – When our Year 3 Medicine and Surgery teaching went exclusively online for some weeks, our Clinical Teaching Fellows (CTFs) (shout out to @CTFLeics, Hannah Bonfield and Mark Hamilton) and I devised a way they could help students recap the learning points from the week’s worth of study. Every Friday, one CTF would take students in Medicine in one Blackboard Collaborate room, and another CTF would take Surgical students in another room the next hour. They created questions in Top Hat, devised to spark discussion and deeper learning around pathologies, procedures, and management covered in that week. Students needed two devices to participate, an iPad or computer to get into Collaborate, and a phone or iPad to do the Top Hat questions. Afterwards, students can review these sessions via a Collaborate recording, and also by logging into the Top Hat portal where they can always look at the questions, see what they answered, and see what the correct answer is.
This is only the beginning of sharing all the ways we are teaching and enabling Medical students to learn during these days. I hope to share more in further posts.
Terese Bird, Leicester Medical School Educational Designer
When you do a Top Hat quiz live in class, did you know there is a simple way to go back and see all the questions, what the answers are, and what you answered?
To do this, you must use a browser. (It does not work on using the Top Hat app.) You can use Safari on your iPad. Log into app.tophat.com with your regular Top Hat username and password. Now find the course in which you did the quiz, and enter it. You should see something like the image below.
Now click on Gradebook at the top. You will now see every question, what answer you gave, and what the correct answer is, as in the image below.
Terese Bird, Leicester Medical School Educational Designer
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