Dr Debbie Aitken
@drdebbieaitken
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Associate Professor of Medical Education @UniofOxford | Fellow @HMCOxford | PFHEA | Passionate about equity, diversity & belonging | she/her 🏳️🌈
Oxford, UK
Joined September 2009
Wrote a little piece for @TheLancet with @drdebbieaitken & Dr AK Ismail (@OxfordDeptofEd) on ingrained dominant paradigms in med ed research. Neocolonial patterns need be introspectively confronted at all stages of the process to decolonise the field
thelancet.com
We thank the authors of The Lancet and colonialism: past, present, and future1 for confronting the journal's colonial history. APZ and AKI are medical educators, and from migrant families displaced...
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Student #poster: Mastering non-technical skills can save lives. #Interdisciplinary #simulation is a valuable tool for #learning. Our research suggests that the learning experience is enhanced by inter-specificity in simulation. By: https://t.co/ST5g2LfVGN
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Student #poster alert: #Resilience is crucial in the medical field. My research aims to identify the elements that foster resilience among preclinical phase medical students in the UAE in order to develop an effective resilience curriculum. @mariam_shadan
https://t.co/2fuT9ZIxcS
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#MSc #MedEd student #research #poster: An exploration by @antonyzacharias into the experiences of role models amongst sexual and/or gender minority identifying medical students at medical school. An often hidden but important tool in increasing representation of this group.
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What to know more about our MSc in #MedicalEducation? See these videos from our course director @drdebbieaitken & students: https://t.co/fsReqrmDrM
#MedEd #HPE #HSE @OxfordDeptofEd
education.ox.ac.uk
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Very pleased to be a part of this publication! https://t.co/MUQuZATlks At @EdinUniMedicine we created an 'Active Bystander Intervention Training'' course for medical students to raise awareness and empower positive intervention in tricky dilemmas. Thank you to all involved!
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New book coming out in April ‘23: Thinking about communication and diversity in healthcare. @sgriffiths_6 @alidrewett @Drgrahameaston @qmul_ihse @asmeofficial
#practicalguidelines
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🚨Call for MSc #MedEd research participants🚨 We are looking for UK Black female doctors to take part in 1-2-1 online interviews about their experiences of working in academic medicine. Full details in the poster, and at https://t.co/PQ3ZXE48pK. Please do RT! #MedTwitter
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So great to see all our brilliant Year 1 MSc MedEd students over the last couple of days. This weekend we’ve covered leadership, mentoring, coaching, assessment, teaching skills and active bystander intervention!
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@NHSLothianMedEd @nursing_studies @EdinUniMedicine building on @drdebbieaitken #activebystandertraining with #EDI sim giving our final year nursing and med students opportunity to put skills into practice in as part of student assistantship #whatwouldyousay? #diversitymatters
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We're offering 11 scholarships for practitioners with offers for MSc in Learning and Teaching,MSc in Teacher Education,MSc in Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching,MSc in Educational Assessment or the MSc in Medical Education.Applications by March 1st:
education.ox.ac.uk
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Two further scholarships have been announced today [19th January] by our Department, this time to support students who are undertaking the MSc in Medical Education at the University. Read more: https://t.co/BVnMwmQuxY
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We were delighted to host the launch of Prof Josh Hordern's latest title 'Compassion in healthcare' yesterday. Josh is Prof of Christian Ethics @OU_TheoReligion, Lecturer in Theology @JesusOxford, & Governing Body Fellow @HMCOxford. 📚Available from all good bookshops & online.
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Turning diversity from a barrier to a facilitator of empathy in healthcare https://t.co/Hi8ZDjlhg2 via @JeremyHowick @uniofleicester @BJGPjournal fyi @FacultyHP @IMEweb @NHS_HealthEdEng
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This #BlackHistoryMonth, ASME wishes to showcase influential Black pioneers in medicine and healthcare over the past 50 years. We’ll be sharing incredible stories from the past & future, alongside @MelaninMedics #medtwitter #MedEd
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We're delighted to announce we're launching our flagship public lecture series for this academic year on Monday. The theme for this term is Race and Education. The events are hybrid and open to everyone. Find out more on our website: https://t.co/cic3UsjRw6
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Such an inspiring story and definitely well worth a listen! Thank you Nicoletta and @RiyaEGeorge
In July Nicoletta Fossati, an Honorary Reader in Clinical Education and Anaesthesia at St George's, took part in Meaningful Conversations in Healthcare with @RiyaEGeorge. You can find her conversation Overcoming Disability through Love and Learning, here:
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Highly recommend this article on the ethics of health professions education research by @olletencate! @OxfordMMEd #MedEd
Author suggests #research #ethics can be roughly grouped into 3 distinct areas, each with their own distinct aims: protecting the integrity of science, research subjects, and authorship: https://t.co/fyHirXWiS8.
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