Category: standardized client

  • Hong Kong U Faculty of Law: virtual & f2f sims

    I’m in Hong Kong U Faculty of Law, on an exchange scheme with Wilson Chow of the Law Faculty, funded by HKU Teaching Exchange Fellowship Scheme.  Wilson has already visited the UK, and conducted a survey of students using SIMPLE at Strathclyde, Northumbria and Glamorgan.  He presented his results at the BILETA conference, and  will…

  • OSTE

    Having been involved in the construction of an OSCE for the SRA’s new QLTS, I’m following the literature in medical education quite closely.  Came across a useful meta-review on a twist to the OSCE — the OSTE: Objective Structured Teaching Encounter.  Reference below the fold, with abstract.

  • Interpretation, narrative, sim learning

    You know how it is: you talk about things at a seminar or workshop, and then you rehearse it afterwards, the things you should have said, directions you might have taken but didn’t.  One of the things I should have talked about in the optional APLEC workshop, if there had been time, was the power…

  • Standardized clients @ ANU Legal Workshop

    Still catching up on AU activities, before the plane later today flies me back to northern winter.  As Adjunct Prof at ANU I spent the earlier part of the week training Standardized Clients at ANU’s Legal Workshop, and simultaneously training the staff under Margie Rowe’s capable direction who will take on the future training.  Our…

  • Workshop on legal ethics, pm

    Afternoon session consisted of a workshop by Graham Ferris and Jane Jarman on addressing pluralism and the discourse it leads to; and yours truly, on ‘The Standardized Client Initiative (SCI): a portrait of the outsider as teacher’ — slides at Slideshare, or on the Slides page here.   The title refers to one of the…

  • Standardized Clients @ Northumbria University Law School

    Karen Barton and I were at Northumbria U Law School this week, training Standardized Clients (SCs), at the invitation of Jonny Hall, Acting Associate Dean.  We had a brilliant time – what a great bunch of SCs – attentive, witty, fast learners.  Northumbria U. is the first English university to adopt the method – why…