Knowing this course was available locally and delivered by an institution I trust made it an easy decision to make

Rob Sandler Medical Education Headshot
Rob Sandler
Postgraduate student
PGCert Medical Education
Rob enjoyed taking what he鈥檇 learned on one of the contact days and immediately implementing it into teaching the very next day.
Rob Sandler Medical Education Headshot

鈥淭here are opportunities to teach everyday when you鈥檙e a medical practitioner, and being able to use what you鈥檝e learned and then receive feedback from the students to see if you could have done anything better, is incredibly useful to improve the teaching. This approach has improved my teaching 100 times over and it鈥檚 been really satisfying seeing the positive changes.鈥

Rob is a Rheumatology and General Medicine Registrar from Chesterfield, who also trained in MBChB Medicine at the University of 葫芦影业, as well as completing his foundation and core medical training in South Yorkshire. Rob started his Specialist Training in Rheumatology in 2018, and has always had an interest in teaching.

Rob says, 鈥淜nowing this course was available locally and delivered by an institution I trust, made it an easy decision to make! I was looking for something which would offer me more theory and understanding of my ways of teaching, and how I can improve my teaching. I also wanted a course that I could complete part-time, but wasn鈥檛 100% distance learning. It was important to me that there was a degree of contact teaching, and that I was able to complete the course within one year.鈥

鈥淚 found reading about situated learning theory probably the most interesting aspect, mainly because I completely identified with the content and when I think back to some of the experiences that i had as a student myself, a lot of them came from some of the concepts which are explored as part of this theory.

鈥淭hat was just one of quite a few different theories that we discussed that I was really able to identify with - and when you reflect and understand these theories, you can learn not only how you benefited from them, but the aso how you can implement them in your own teaching to the benefit of your students.鈥

Rob advises to look into any possible funding through taking on a paid role at the medical school, or academic training programme or fellowship. Rob adds, 鈥淚n the short term, I think this has definitely improved the way that I teach on a daily basis, and that鈥檚 been reflected in the feedback that I鈥檝e received since I鈥檝e taken on the course. 

鈥淕oing forward not only will the course aid me to start planning programmes of teaching, but it will also open the door to getting more formally involved in medical education when I become a consultant in the future, which is a real ambition of mine.鈥

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