This blog was written by Dihini Pilimatalawwe, a final year undergraduate student at the University of Bath studying psychology. Dihini spent her placement year working with the Applied Social Science Group at the PCU. With my return to the final year of my undergraduate psychology degree at the University of Bath, I have been spending […]
COVID-19: Asymptomatic testing for students in higher education institutions
The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute has launched a new ethical framework, checklist and resources to support higher education institutions in planning and running asymptomatic COVID-19 testing programmes for students. The team consulted students and staff at the University on ethical issues relating to the asymptomatic COVID-19 testing programme for students. Their views, combined with […]
Contribute to a new medical humanities working group at the University of Cambridge
The Department of Public Health and Primary Care is setting up a new medical humanities working group. This aims to explore and utilise the relevance of the arts and humanities to medical education. Dr Anne Swift (Director, Improving Health teaching) Dr Robbie Duschinsky (Head, Applied Social Science group at the Primary Care Unit) and Dr […]
Case study: boosting the involvement of medical students in research at Cambridge
A new and innovative Medical Student Systematic Reviews Group, at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, enabled 53 medical students to contribute directly to ongoing systematic reviews in 16 different research groups during 2018/9. The Group is launching for its second year this week and more details are available here. Systematic reviews are […]