Medical Education

Why do stories make such powerful teaching tools? Revisiting his EuSEM 2021 talk, Simon Carley explores how patient narratives engage learners and connect clinical experience with evidence, with an animation and links to his fuller discussion of storytelling.

What did emergency medicine trainees report in the 2020 EMTA survey? This review examines flexible working, protected development time, fatigue and bullying, alongside effective supervision and training opportunities, and asks departments to turn the findings into action.

Applying for a clinical education fellowship? Nick Smith draws on his experience of shortlisting and interviewing to explain how to demonstrate meaningful teaching experience, match an application to the person specification and prepare a convincing interview and teaching session.

An introduction to St Emlyn's lesson plans for emergency medicine teaching. The guide sets out learning objectives, background resources, facilitated case discussion and reflection, showing how to structure a session for blended learning or a flipped classroom.

Which ideas from learning science should shape medical education? Nick Smith reviews cognitive load, dual coding, retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving and feedback, while questioning familiar approaches such as learning styles. A reflection on how evidence about learning translated into teaching during the 2010s.

How does sleep relate to learning? This discussion of Matthew Walker’s book, Why We Sleep, considers revision, shift work, teaching schedules and conference travel, asking how educational habits might better protect opportunities to rest.