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Interest GroupsJASME, EDG and moreA workshop for Education Researchers (from complete novices to PhD students) to be held on Tuesday 17th July 2012, from 12pm - 6pm, at The Brighton Centre, Kings Road, Brighton, UK.
Medical education research is a young discipline and many would be researchers and supervisors have a steep learning curve to climb. ASME is running this workshop to foster the quantity and quality of UK medical education research.
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The workshop aims to be inclusive and fun so as to make medical education research accessible to those who would like to conduct it, whatever their current level of achievement. The session will be interactive with participants required to submit a brief synopsis of their current research interest to the workshop. Your synopsis should be no more than a single page of A4 and include your research goals (either aims, questions or hypotheses), your motivation for conducting the study, and brief notes about what methodological questions you are grappling with at the moment. Please email your submission by 18th June 2012 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Novice to intermediate education researchers including teaching staff who wish to build an education research portfolio, masters students, and beginning PhD students.
By attending the workshop, participants will:
Develop skills in:
The workshop will be led by a small team of experienced researchers who share a commitment to drawing people into the disipline and helping to build the capacity to conduct quality education research.
It will be highly interactive throughout. The main activity will be small group work, interspersed with short presentations and plenary discussion.
Participants will be asked to provide a summary of their current status and (if appropriate) details of their research plan (one side of A4) by Monday 18th June at 5pm, as well as details of specific topics they would like addressed. This will enable the faculty to finalise the workshop to ensure maximum effectiveness for all attendees. Please note this workshop will be interactive, and submitted work will be shared with all participants within the session. Please email your document to Nicola at ASME: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ASME Members: £170
Non-Members: £220
This will be a highly interactive afternoon, Come prepared to engage and share!
12.00 Registration and sandwich lunch
12.30-12.45 Introduction by workshop leaders
12.45-13.00 Participants to introduce themselves to others in their group by name, level of experience (novice to intermediate), and research interests
13.00-13.30 Ways of thinking about research
13.30-14.00 Being in the club
14.00-14.45 Paradigms, practice and theories
14.45 -15.00 Break
15.00-15.45 Theory, methodology and method
15.45-17.00 Taking your study forward
17.00 -17.45 Summary and discussion
17.45-18.00 Evaluation
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