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Learning about Patient Safety and error from tutors and peers: What can students learn from asking tutors about error?

To develop an 8 week module that uses enquiry as a central tool in sharing learning experiences involving both system and personal error. Phase 1 will explore the potentials and drawbacks of student enquiry about personal error. Phase 2 will explore the integration of inter-personal learning with clinicians alongside student led enquiry into systems error. The intended outcome is to develop an effective Enquiry-Based Learning method that uses the apprenticeship model in conjunction with recognised tools, group work and reflective writing to meet a range of Patient Safety ILOs.
Project Team: Mark Perry, Aneez Esmail, Caroline Boggis, Tom Sanders, John Sandars  Faculty: Medical and Human Sciences
Funding year: 2006
Keywords: patient, safety, error, tutors, peers, personal, clinic, clinicians, system, apprenticeship, mentoring, postgraduate, workplace
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Encouraging engineers to read: A book-based final year assessment

It is proposed to initiate a student-driven learning activity based around the directed reading of a book relevant to the broader context of chemical engineering. Students would then undertake formal assessment of the material covered in their book. The learning process would be managed via structured group activities including formal discussion groups. Benefits would include: (i) first view books as accessible and to have the inclination and interpretative tools to engage with them as a basis for lifelong learning; (ii) the opportunity for individual students to direct their learning towards areas of specific personal interest, through selection from a diverse pool of relevant books; (iii) a redirection of the teaching burden such that staff too are encouraged and enabled to make time for reading, with this otherwise luxury having the legitimate and tangible outcome of being directly connected to teaching.
Project Team: Dr Grant Campbell and Dr Paul Grassia  Faculty: Engineering and Physical Sciences
Funding year: 2008
Keywords: reading, discussion groups, chemical engineering, lifelong learning, personalized learning