Edinburgh Summer School in Clinical Education
The Edinburgh Summer School in Clinical Education (ESSCE) returns in August 2025
| Monday 11 August – Introduction to teaching and learning | |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Registration and welcome |
| 09:15 – 10:15 | Overview, Introductions and Ice Breaker |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | The learner and the Teacher |
| 13:15 – 16:30 | How do we learn? The learning environment |
| 18:30 - | Drinks (18:30) Dinner (19:00) |
Tuesday 12 August - Learning Design | |
| 09:00 – 12:15 | Curricular and Instructional Design |
| 13:15 – 16:30 | Designing an interactive teaching experience |
Wednesday 13 August - Assessment | |
| 09:00 – 12:15 | Writing and evaluating questions and exams |
| 13:15 – 16:30 | Principles and practice of good assessments |
Thursday 14 August - Designing and evaluating courses | |
| 09:00 – 12:15 | Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE) |
| 13:15 – 16:30 | Introduction to Simulation |
Friday 15 August - Morning only - Evaluations of Teaching | |
| 09:00- 10:30 | Evaluation |
| 10:45 - 12:15 | Planetary Health and Sustainable Healthcare - how can medical teaching support the drive towards Net Zero? |
This a draft of the sessions, that might still be subject to change
Overview
Are you enthusiastic about helping clinical students learn? Do you see yourself leading quality improvements in education, for the benefit of students and patient care? This course is for qualified clinicians and clinical educators looking to improve their educational knowledge and skills.
The Edinburgh Summer School is packed with workshops to develop your skills around teaching, learning and assessment - and enough theory to give you the tools and the confidence to lead change, evaluate developments and ensure excellence in your future practice.
The social programme includes a Course Dinner and in the evenings you may wish to explore the potpourri of events in the internationally famous Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
See sessions and tutors for an outline programme. Further information is also available via the menu.
Thanks to the very well prepared programme of the Summer School and unusually experienced medical teachers and educationalists who tutored the sessions we could learn much more than we had expected. We had great opportunities to develop our personal teaching skills, discuss our points of view with colleagues from many medical universities from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and Australia.
Recent Summer School participant
Contact us:
Email: essce@ed.ac.uk