Endocrine Abstracts

The General Medical Council’s publication ‘Outcomes for Graduates’ places emphasis on doctors being able to integrate biomedical science, research, and scholarship with clinical practice. In response, a new paradigm of assessment was introduced for the intercalated Bachelor of Science (iBSc) in Endocrinology program at Imperial College School of Medicine. The approach involves authentic “active learning” assessments analogous to tasks encountered in a ...

Laboratory skills are a critical part of science education, enabling students to develop practical competencies and to relate theoretical learning to the laboratory bench. However, practical learning is often daunting for students, particularly those making the transition from secondary school to higher education. To support this transition, we have developed ‘The Biomedical Kitchen’, which introduces first year Medical Biosciences students to laboratory practice thr...