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Mentorship for 3rd Year Medical Students
Mentorship for 3rd Year Medical Students
Team Leaders Trevor Dean & Rob Sadler
Country Uganda - Online only
Background to the Programme
Aims of the Programme
A wonderful new opportunity to serve the Uganda Christian University School (UCU) of Medicine in Kampala, Uganda has arisen. We have been asked to pilot online teaching and mentoring of 3rd year medical students at UCU, starting in the next few months.
Sessions will probably be on-line on a Tuesday lunchtime for no more than 90 mins, and will be on whole person compassionate care but with a focus on end of life care.
Please let us know if you would be interested in being involved in fine tuning the curriculum and especially in delivering the teaching. We aim to:
Establish the viability of developing effective mentoring groups in Whole Person Care for 3rd and 4th year medical students
Introduce patient centred care to students in a Palliative Care setting
Embed Christian Values during the training stage of future Ugandan doctors
Details and outline of the Programme being delivered
These are yet to be fully developed. The tutor team will initially have the responsibility to produce a programme from existing PRIME materials.
Teaching Commitment Required
Two hours on a Tuesday afternoon on a weekly or bi weekly basis during UCU semester time. The Dean's hope is this would commence ASAP.
Likely cost per tutor / £0.00
Particular skills or experience needed
Some on-line teaching experience would be helpful but not essential as you would be facilitating small groups.
For further details contact: admin@prime-international.org
Join a Teaching Team
Join a Teaching Team
We have learnt much over the last year or so around the challenges of producing and presenting good interactive online and in-person teaching. Since the Covid pandemic PRIME now has the ability to reach out to both our existing and new partners without needing to leave our homes. This allows younger tutors and those unable to travel or with a greater number of commitments to be more fully involved. Whilst we are increasingly seeing a return to travelling and teaching overseas, it is clear that our ability to teach remotely provides new opportunities not just to teach but to sustain relationships with partners and mentor new tutors. There is no doubt that remote teaching does offer huge advantages for the future, meaning it is certainly here to stay.
Online teaching does though present certain changes to how we operate: invitations to teach come with much less notice, they may be for just an hour or two at a time and it is sometimes more difficult to plan the programme, prepare the teaching materials, and deliver the teaching when not meeting face-to-face. This is especially so because of PRIME’s interactive teaching methods.
To help us meet these new challenges we are developing inter-professional “Teaching Teams” in some of our core subject areas.
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