iBSc Thinking Writing workshop Medical Education iBSc Thinking Writing workshop

Analysing the essay task: Task Academic Essay Considering what you have learnt from both modules: FunEd and the Theory behind Teaching and Learning, please discuss the underpinning principles and processes that ensure medical students learn what they need to know in order to practice as doctors. It is expected that you discuss and analyse information from different paradigms of the educational literature encountered within both modules. You should integrate your evidence and create a coherent referenced argument which addresses the key underpinning principles and processes of undergraduate medical education. Where appropriate you should illustrated your points with authentic examples of medical student learning.

Breaking it down … Academic Essay Considering what you have learnt from both modules: FunEd and the Theory behind Teaching and Learning:   1. The task: Discuss the underpinning principles (examples & critique) and processes (examples & critique) that ensure medical students learn what they need to know in order to practice as doctors. Questions to read back into these? What do you want to say about them or argue?

Breaking it down … 2. Guidance: It is expected that you discuss and analyse information from different paradigms of the educational literature encountered within both modules. You should integrate your evidence and create a coherent referenced argument which addresses   3. the key underpinning principles and processes of undergraduate medical education. An evaluation of the theories & practices 4. Where appropriate you should illustrated your points with authentic examples of medical student learning, Use yourself & your experience as evidence? How are you going to organize and structure the essay?

Focussing THE TASK: Discuss the underpinning principles and processes that ensure medical students learn what they need to know in order to practice as doctors.   There are underpinning principles and processes that ensure medical students learn what they need to know in order to practice as doctors. There are no underpinning principles and processes that ensure medical students learn what they need to know in order to practice as doctors. What are underpinning principles and processes that ensure medical students learn what they need to know in order to practice as doctors?

Different stances to reading and writing: Non-critical approaches: Reader/writer engages with the material ‘on its own terms’, not commenting, challenging or drawing comparison with other sources. 2. Weakly critical approaches: More attention to soundness of reasoning and strengths of conclusions drawn, but doesn’t step back from reasoning and question assumptions on which it is based. 3. Strongly critical approaches: You move to considering how the material you are engaging with is constructed, on what assumptions, according to whose values and within which historical, intellectual and political frames (paradigms)