Social responsibility and medical education: Students and educators as partners for change. Implications for our practice. by

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2026-07-17 09:00:08 UTC

2026-07-17 15:26:24 UTC

Always look for opportunities to incorporate games in medical education!

2026-07-17 15:26:29 UTC

I liked the idea of the mentoring pods to help widen access to surgery. Also hope to include more real patients in examination sessions!

2026-07-17 15:27:08 UTC

Learn more about ways to use AI appropriately and ethically as an educator

Entry barriers

2026-07-17 15:27:39 UTC

We need to move away from rewarding those who can take the most abuse and instead aim to recruit those best suited for the future role

I liked the idea of volunteering. I wish i could incorporate this for all trainees and students and even consultants. Unfortunately there is limitation to this but if enacted, can change the lives of many.

2026-07-17 15:28:05 UTC

2026-07-17 15:28:12 UTC

Find ways to make medical students feel like part of the team on wards - identify the role of the medical student in a clinical setting.

2026-07-17 15:29:13 UTC

Involving students more in their own education

Social capital

2026-07-17 15:35:10 UTC

Think about how we can support students build ‘social capital’ eg linking student societies with specialty enthusiasts

2026-07-17 15:35:59 UTC

Bring back mess parties to encourage interaction between all health care professionals (no AIs were harmed in the making of this post)

Assessment drives learning and teaching

2026-07-17 15:38:18 UTC

Consider how current (mainly high-stakes summative) assessments undermine our approaches to learning and teaching eg they promote ‘passmed’ approach to placement learning, and worsen inequities. They often undermine experiential learning and discourage placement attendance. We must consider ways to improve this

Workshops

2026-07-17 15:38:20 UTC

The workshops were very useful, it was good how students work was included in the presentations where we learnt more about the things they do in the background which is very impressive.

2026-07-17 15:39:04 UTC

We can empower change. We can challenge the system on things like skin tone sensitive manikins, accurate female manikins with breasts. Small changes that can have a huge impact.

2026-07-17 15:39:04 UTC

Be more active in supporting student-led initiatives

Not seen, not heard

2026-07-17 15:39:07 UTC

When writing my teaching presentations to look at them with different cultural lenses to make sure I am inclusive.

2026-07-17 15:39:52 UTC

For SCPs, psych is 6 weeks, MSK is 6 weeks etc. But the whole of medicine block is also 6 weeks - that is not enough time to cover all of medicine! There are students who haven't even been on the resp wards... the medicine block needs to be longer.