Endocrine Abstracts

I am a Consultant Endocrinologist and Reader in Endocrinology. I have a strong interest in undergraduate education and hold various educational roles at Imperial College London, including Head of Year 1, BSc in Biomedical Sciences. This is a new degree course aimed at students who want careers as biomedical researchers, tackling important human diseases. Hence, early development of laboratory skills is the backbone of this course and we have worked hard to develop new approach...

I am committed to undergraduate and postgraduate education. As Endocrinology course lead, Imperial College Medical School, I have designed a course to consolidate key principles of Endocrine pathology and physiology. Clinical reasoning is a cornerstone of clinical practice and a key learning requirement in undergraduate medical education. I have focused on developing clinical reasoning skills throughout the Endocrinology course using interactive clinical cases. The students ha...

Introduction: Co-production refers to working in partnership with service-users to improve provision of services. Increasing evidence highlights that co-production can improve health care and result in financial savings. Service-users are involved in defining the problem or need, creating the solution, delivering it, and evaluating it. This approach demands longer-term engagement by service-providers but leads to sustainable change. Graphic facilitation is the use of large-sca...