We were visited recently by Liz Anderson, the Higher Education Academy’s discipline lead for Medicine and Dentistry, who is interested in our postgraduate Primary Care programme, for which I am Director of Studies, and the ways we are exploring flexibility within it and through the FLP project.
We explored how we might link the pathways within the Primary Care MSc, especially medical education, with the new Professional Standards Framework and particularly whether the cpd pathway could be submitted for accreditation by the HEA. An important consideration will be the value that students, and prospective students, on this programme place on gaining the status of FHEA. Medical educators are usually clinicians who teach part-time be it within medical schools, in clinical practice or as part of doctors’ speciality training. We need to explore the extent to which association with the HEA is as meaningful in these contexts as it is in HE institutions. More later…….
Liz reminded us of the funding opportunities available from the HEA for staff development, teaching development, travel and international scholarship opportunities.
And great that Liz also agreed to be one of the project’s Critical Friends. As she is based in Bristol we hope to see more of her.
Tim
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