Education Strategy
The UCD School of Medicine & Medical Science continually strives to innovate within all aspects of our teaching to ensure that our degree programmes equip our graduates with the necessary knowledge, skills and attributes to sustain successful careers as healthcare professionals. The School has a track record of continuous development in our Medicine programme which has seen our programmes develop from a subjects-based approach to teaching into, first, a systems-based and, more recently, into an integrated systems curriculum. The latter seeks to integrate fundamental biomedical science knowledge with the expertise necessary to addresses health-maintenance, understand disease aetiology and pathogenesis and builds confidence and skills essential for effective clinical intervention.
In this context, the UCD School of Medicine & Medical Science has identified the following strategic priorities :-
- Deliver a systems-based modular curriculum that combines normal function, abnormal function, clinical manifestation and intervention strategies.
- Increase the extent to which pre-clinical education is delivered by clinical educators through illustrative case-based teaching.
- Development of strong interpersonal skills such that our graduates emerge with the highest levels of professionalism, communication and patient empathy.
- Enhance the student education experience by attention to student welfare and by adopting innovative teaching strategies and assessment methods.
- Build a strong team of leaders in medical education to lead continuous improvement and programme development
- Adopt new technologies and teaching strategies as appropriate to ensure that our teaching programmes are of the highest possible standard.
- Rigorously and systematically evaluate all aspects of teaching & learning within the School to identify areas for further development and guide diffusion of current best practice
