Student centered approach in Biomedical Sciences final year research project module

Physiology 2015 (Cardiff, UK) (2015) Proc Physiol Soc 34, PC043

Poster Communications: Student centered approach in Biomedical Sciences final year research project module

L. Shang1

1. School of Medical Sciences, Bradford University, Bradford, United Kingdom.

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Final year research project module plays a very important role in Biomedical Sciences Programme, and is a very challenging practical task for students. I use student centered approach to achieve best teaching outcome. 1) Designing a multidisciplinary project to attract students. I particularly paid attention to using update materials to stimulate students thinking. I set the outline to guide students to select projects. 2) Inspiring students’ passion and thinking in preparing project. I deliberately included students in materials, equipment preparation and explained key updated skills to be used to increase students’ passion and to form their thinking of how to start a new topic from scratch. 3) Giving student freedom to debate and adjust experiments in practice. I encouraged students to engage and selectively allow them to make reasonable change during experiments. This facilitated students to initiate their “own researches”. 4) Providing full support and guidance for students to run their experiments smoothly. I focus on raising questions for students to self-think through regular meeting, challenging students by asking them to give short presentation, and critical praise on their experiments details including making notes. This gave students real sense of the skills application and a logical thinking and practice in research. 5) Setting high standard to help students to achieve. I continuously help students thinking how this training would fit into their studies and future career path. Students who are interested in choosing academic career start to think how they can develop their career after 4 weeks project.



Where applicable, experiments conform with Society ethical requirements.

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