The Centre for Research in Medical and Dental Education (CRMDE) was established in 2000 as a partnership between the West Midlands Postgraduate Deanery and the School of Education, University of Birmingham.
Since the establishment of the Centre, work has been undertaken on a wide range of research projects, with about 12 current at any one time. In this period, broad areas of enquiry have included:
CRMDE is a partner in the NHS National Genetics Education and Development Centre, which was established in 2004 to provide a focal point for genetics education and training in the NHS.
Each year we co-host the Birmingham Conference. This is an educational conference for health care professionals hosted jointly with our partners, the West Midlands Workforce Deanery. The theme for the 2007 conference was team working and patient safety.
We are now building on our research projects by developing teaching programmes. These include research methods courses for the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) and the Postgraduate Certificate in Education for Health Professionals, led by the Schools of Education and Medicine, University of Birmingham.
Draft Guidelines for Dental Educators: Seeking Your Views
COPDEND have commissioned the University of Birmingham to outline a set of UK guidelines for educators of the post-registration dental team. These include (for illustration): dental tutors; VT advisers and trainers; DCP tutors (nurses, technicians, therapists, hygienists); providers of 'training the trainers' programmes; consultant education supervisors and trainers. The document, Guidelines for Dental Educators: a framework for educators of the dental team, downloadable as a pdf format, is intended to provide an overarching framework which can be used to establish good practice expectations related to different dental educator roles.
An on-line survey has been designed to seek dental educators’ views towards these guidelines. This can be accessed direct from: http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/bham/dentaleducators
The survey is simple to complete and your contribution will help shape the final guidelines. Responses can be received until 20 June 2008. If you have any questions about this work, please contact Dr Alison Bullock, CRMDE, University of Birmingham Tel: 0121 414 4380; Email: a.d.bullock@bham.ac.uk.
A paper based version is available on request from Alison Bullock.
Do please spare a few minutes to give us your views.
Latest Dental Education Report
The following report, downloadable as a pdf document, contains the results from our latest dental education report: Firmstone, V, Bullock A and Frame J (2008)The Pilot Enhanced Dental Training Practice Scheme in the West Midlands: An Evaluation. The University of Birmingham.
If you have any questions about this study, please contact Vickie Firmstone by email at v.r.firmstone@bham.ac.uk or by telephone on 0121 414 4404.
For further information about CRMDE please contact:
Liz Potts
School of Education
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham, B15 2TT
Tel: 0121 414 3422
Fax: 0121 414 4865
Email: E.A.Potts@bham.ac.uk
Fax: +44 (0) 121 414 4865 | School e-mail: education@bham.ac.uk
