Medical Education Forum

 

Sharing & Learning Together

 

Organized by
Medical Education Unit, Faculty of Medicine

 

 

Topic: Making of the Best Doctors - from Admission to Graduation

Speaker: Dr Daniel Sze

Date: Wednesday, 29 June 2005

Time: 4.00 pm

Venue: CRC Symposium Rooms

 

Synopsis:

 

Medical schools around the world have a need to select their medical students. Traditionally, high academic ability has been the major, if not the only selection criterion. For a number of reasons, a selection policy based purely on academic marks is no longer appropriate. PQA is an instrument designed to assess a range of personal qualities considered to be important for the study and practice of medicine, dentistry and other health professions.Problem-based learning (PBL) is a favoured approach in medical education because the research suggests that it promotes active, authentic and group-based learning but is it really so in all contexts? Seminal research suggests that it is not universally true for all students because student learning research (SLR) show that the quality of learning experienced varies; and this variation is closely associated to students' perception of the contexts and their learning outcomes. The key question is: how are variations in the quality of students' experience of the PBL medical education relate to the learning and cultural contexts?

 

About the Author:

 

Dr Daniel Sze is a brilliant researcher working on the collaborative myeloma project with the Centenary Institute and Institute of Haematology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Daniel was a finalist for the Cure Cancer Australia's Young Researcher Award in 2002 and again in 2003. Daniel is renowned internationally for his work on clinical and experimental immunology and was nominated for the Young Researcher Award for his work on myeloma. He has been successful in obtaining peer-reviewed grants from the NSW Cancer Council and the Anthony Rothe Memorial Trust. He has obtained two prestigious international fellowship grants from the International Myeloma Foundation and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. He has also very recently received a traveling scholarship from the Leukaemia Foundation and a travel fellowship from the European Union.

 

At the same time Daniel is being trained in Educational studies at the University of Sydney for his third Masters degree in Higher Education and he has played a very active role in undergraduate teaching and lecturing at the Granville TAFE. He is also participating in the Radio Broadcasting of a Scientific programme that aims to educate the general public about cancer and genetics.

 

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