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Bristol Research and Innovations in Teaching and Education (originally the BEF group)

The BEF (Bristol Expeditionary Force) was launched on 4th November 2010 (original BEF flyer, pdf, 360kb), with the aim of forming a group of Bristol medical teachers wishing to publish in medical education journals and presenting at medical education conferences.  The idea is to bring together medical teachers with common interests for peer mentoring and support.  We wanted to provide academic support and guidance, especially to new and less experienced medical educators so together we can raise Bristol’s profile in medical education, nationally and internationally.  This meeting was very well attended and there is a short write up in our TLHP Newsletter (pdf, 223kb).  If you work in the region covered by Bristol Medical School and are a teacher, academic or student interested in getting involved please talk to one of the team or email tlhp-office@bris.ac.uk. 

News:

Please see the News section on our Web site for the latest on educational research, and upcoming deadlines for conference submissions and our 2011 "ASME conference update" telling of Bristol's impact at conferences this year. 

Meetings:

Please see the Events section on our Web site for a list of all events run by the group. 

• Abstracts Workshop: Wednesday 19th January, Top Floor Seminar Room, CfME, 39 St Michael's Hill.
  We'd like to invite you to a drop in session on Wednesday 19 January, 1800 - 2000, here in the Seminar Room on the top floor of 39 St Michaels Hill. We'll be available to help you write your abstract for ASME or AMEE, as well as give any other advice and 'ghost writing' assistance you might need! Of course, if you're aiming for an ASME workshop or AMEE research paper then you're welcome to visit sooner.
• Initial meeting: Thursday 4 November, 6pm, Dolphin House, BRI (see item in our TLHP Newsletter, pdf, 223kb). 

Group Newsletters:

• Peppermint Page vol 2 issue 6: November/Decemeber 2011 (pdf, 833kb) - The cult of personality. Conference deadlines.  Evening BEF event in January 2012. 
• Peppermint Page vol 2 issue 5: September/October 2011 (pdf, 576kb) - Transitions in medical education: the importance of insight and feedback in helping people perform in new learning environments.  Office move.  Evening BEF event in January 2012. 
• Peppermint Page vol 2 issue 4: July/August 2011 (pdf, 725kb) - A boost for local research and innovation - Bristol make a splash at medical education conferences; Are we developing curious professionals? 
• Peppermint Page vol 2 issue 2/3: (uploading soon). 
• Peppermint Page vol 2 issue 1: January 2011 (pdf, 922kb) - Feeding forward, blogging and dyslexia... An interesting trio of findings from Medical Education.
• Peppermint Page vol 1 issue 5 (Supp): December 2010 (pdf, 574kb) - Special conference issue: AMEE Impressions: Glasgow 2010; AMEE and F2. 
• Peppermint Page vol 1 issue 4: September 2010 (pdf, 769kb) - Are you Gen X or Gen Y?; Lingua Franca or common language; Professionalism and that Website...
• Peppermint Page vol 1 issue 3: March 2010 (pdf, 473kb) - More than just a job?; Consumption or comprehension - do we need to teach our students to read?; Learner centred teaching, and another way in to professionalism?
• Peppermint Page vol 1 issue 2: February 2010 (pdf, 222kb) - Starting them young; Feedback - hearing through the whine?; Winning teaching with Gagne.
• Peppermint Page vol 1 issue 1: January 2010 (pdf, 227kb) - Med Ed in the Movies; Attachment Theory - do students need friends?; Professionalism: self-control matters. 

Materials:

• Workshop: An introduction to starting basic research and evaluation projects in medical education.  Held on Tuesday 9th August 2011, 10am - 3pm, at Gloucestershire Academy, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.  PowerPoint slides for this workshop (pdf, 3.67Mb)

Relevant links:

• The Centre for Medical Education (TLHP and e-Learning team) are key partners in the ACTOR (Accredited Clinical Teaching Open Resources) project funded by JISC and coordinated by the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine, as part of the Phase 2 Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative.  
• Research collaboration and partnership in at the Centre for Medical Education - these include a research partnership with the Graduate School of Education known as TelME (Technology enhanced learning in Medical Education), investigating the use of e-learning to elicit student attitudes and collaborations with Cardiff Medical School and The Peninsula Medical School.  Bristol is a key partner in the Organising Open Educational Resources (OOER) Project and CHERRI2 (Clinical Health Education Recordings Reusability Initiative). 

Journals:

• Medical Education - Monthly, an ASME journal.
• The Clinical Teacher - Quarterly, an ASME journal
• Medical Teacher - 12 issues per year, an AMEE journal. 
• Academic Medicine - 12 issues per year, an AAMC journal. 
• BMJ

Useful Links:

• The University of Bristol Research and Enterprise Development (RED) site is a useful source of information about setting up research and has the relevant links to people who can support university staff and students in doing this.  It is part of the Research pages at the university. 
• Researchers' Guides from University of Manchester Intellectual Property (UMIP) on subjects such as : Intellectual Property & Confidentiality, Spin-out Companies, Licensing, Academic Materials and Publishing.